L Jean Camp writes:
 > The software market "works" under an exclusion model even when there is 
 > proof, in running code and viable businesses, that the exclusion model 
 > is not necessary. I don't think we should prohibit closed software, 
 > don't get me wrong, but that a strict property model makes more money 
 > for some subset of the people involved in software does not make it 
 > superior in policy terms.

Of course.  They're monopolies charging monopoly prices.  The markets
that you criticize don't sustain monopolies.  The only sustainable
monopolies are government-granted monopolies.

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