This is why right to repair matters. I will NEVER ask a company to repair something I purchased if I can do it myself. Oh wait, they're doing everything in their power to prevent me from being independent after the purchase...

Practically every single manufacturer that makes things more complex than spoons wants to keep fucking me in the ass and for me to keep paying money for thing I already bought and "own".

At least when the spoon breaks... Except I never witnessed it happen in my life, I'm still eating with same stainless steel spoons that I grew up with.

And no, I could easily open source that microscope, because I'm not afraid that some lackey that can't even design his own microscope will have better equipment than I do if I'm the owner of a factory that specializes in producing microscopes. Microscopes don't spawn from thin air just because you have blueprints, you need to build them, and manufacturer of microscopes should take pride in quality of production, not some arbitrary "intellectual property" that I can steal 98% of by simply cutting the finished product in half with my table saw.