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@petit we are communicating over a FOSS project that I'm being paid to work on. My entire career has been open source. I'm not new to this.
We can mandate that government software paid for by our taxes is open source. That makes sense.
We can mandate that publicly funded scientific research is open access. That also makes sense.
We cannot force corporations to open source their software. That's a violation of their intellectual property rights and is compelled speech (hello First Amendment).
I'm well aware open source software provides societal benefits but it does not always provide tangible individual benefits.
I expect that it would and should be illegal for someone to modify this on their vehicle, so making this open source is kind of pointless.
Recently some Boeing code was leaked and people pointed out security issues. Boeing doesn't have to fix it, and if their code was open source we can do nothing but hope they'd take our suggestions. You're not going to buy a 747 and put your own modified code on it.
If you want all code to be open source you're going to have to end capitalism and democracy because that's communism.