as a tax payer, I’m not sure I want other countries freeloading on our investments.

Ugh. Money is a curse

"I have helped pay for something good. More people could benefit from it, at no additional cost to me. But I'd rather they not."

Maybe you should only use it based on how much you paid/contributed. You don't want to free load off other tax payer's money

Thank you sir for making this planet a living hell

I do, when those investments can be copied for free

“You wouldn’t steal a car”, but if you could download one from the internet the world would be a better place.

Great point. If someone else may derive value from it, then it is a lost cause and no one should have it.

Then it dies as an investment, relegated to the halls of decay like other closed source apps as soon as it loses relevance