Semtech, the company I'm angry at over LoRa being proprietary, is publicly traded. And it's pretty small, only 13 billion dollars. So I could just scrounge up 13 billion dollars to buy the company and make them open source the LoRa spec, but the biggest shareholder right now is Blackrock, who I might not be able to beat in a bidding war if they start driving the price up past 13 billion. The question is, why do I assume Blackrock is so desperate to control everything, they won't let the public have the LoRa spec? Should I just try asking Blackrock nicely to take my side on this?

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