"I want to believe." ~Poster on Mulder's wall.

You can interpret "get's away with" as "makes better business sense". On a slight tangent - in the infosec space those with closed source products (e.g. WAF's) laugh at those with open source products when it comes to the numbers of embarrassing and business-damaging zero-days reported.

Closed source rocks if you're a capitalist. Those who sell closed source love that open sourcers are so distracted by singing-it from the mountain.

~From a guy who runs a not-that-small open source biz.