Yeah ... blackbox blob binaries (BBBB&#x27;s?) don&#x27;t strike me as the parent commenter&#x27;s problem.  It&#x27;s not having access to a software&#x27;s _original_ sources that you can build and deploy yourself that is the problem.  Ideally, there would be some nuclear-powered version of View Source that gave you nice access to the original sources for the code loaded on a page - sort of a formalized &quot;Fork Me on GitHub&quot;.<p>When I am being philosophical, smoking a cigar and sipping tequila after midnight, I begin to understand that the only software I&#x27;ve written that has a chance of outliving me is my open source.  Everything else I&#x27;ve done has just been to serve up fleeting amusements.  There is literally nothing commercially closed that I have contributed to that shouldn&#x27;t be utterly scrapped.<p>If I died tonight, my positive impact on this planet for its people now and in the future is probably just constrained to my kids surviving me.  Not an inconsequential thing, I love my kids like crazy and they&#x27;re going on to do greater things than me.  I just have the sense I&#x27;ve got more to offer than procreation and raising good people.<p>In my opinion, any hairy audacious moonshot goals humanity chooses to tackle should be open sourced in every way possible - otherwise the efforts cannot be fully genuine and transparent to generations that follow.  Perhaps the increased open-sourcing of code and designs we see from industry today versus 20 years ago is the best we can hope for in competitive capitalist societies; maybe what we have is good and is the most we can expect.