Hard coded limits (was Re: LINK COUNT TABLE OVERFLOW)

[P.Garbha]

In article <840 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>Sometimes I whish there were a way to put some pressure onto the
>vendors of software to *force* them to deliver the source at least
>partially, if any of these limitations come up. IMHO many many
>working hours of the software engineering people are spent to find
>work arounds for problems, which could be fixed in ten minutes or
>less if - at least parts - of the source were available.

What i cannot figure out is what it would harm to give out the sources
at all. What would it harm to give out the sources for fsck?
It would help you, because someone else would make bug fixes, and
maybe even enhance the program.  Why are they afraid of, when not
giving out the sources?