Well not really people seem to misunderstand the Tech owner , and investor class with the average tech worker . Tech workers for the most part are just about the most socialist people you get since they own the means of production a personal computer , and as such have no problem sharing the wealth , if their needs are met . See Opensource , and MIT licensing . The only reason everything isn ' t open sourceMITPD yet , is that companies try to hold onto stuff that will obsolete , and be worthless in five years . Instead of you know giving up a sliver because most tech workers can ' t do their jobs , and rely on GUI interfaces leading to anything that isn ' t shiny , and configured being terrible of profit , and extending the lifetime . Not that it ' s still common since a company relying on closed source is rare outside of places run by people who know nothing about tech .