These comments made me realize my viewpoints surrounding this issue are heavily based on the American legal system being very binary, with the majority of tech companies going all or nothing. Appeal your way up to the supreme court, and pray for the all.
In this case, it feels like the two most likely outcomes both hurt us.
It isn't in our nature at all, on the contrary. It is if that knowledge is useful for strategic purpose like economic advantages, but it is an exception.
So much so that your first reply froze me and made me think. This is not easy, it's absolutely in our nature to gate keep knowledge.