Given away entirely for free. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and his Berkeley colleagues originally refused to charge royalties. They prioritized open academic knowledge over profit. A movement rooted in anti-commercial, open-source ideals mutated. It became the most tightly locked, hyper-profitable bottleneck in modern tech history. Irony scales well.

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