I understand that, that's why I took off the selfish part. Because companies do that all the time.
My comparison my not be the best, but Apple created something everybody thought was awesome, they decided to keep it secret and not let anyone else use their technology, and they crashed; meanwhile, IBM let anybody use their technology and they crushed Apple. And technically, they still are. I'm just saying, keeping it to yourself and puttin a huge price tag on it can hurt you in the end.
I'm preparing myself for the flaming as I type.