EA might be Swedish, but they're wholly owned by the all American Electronic Arts

I've had some success with scanning and OCR software on my iPhone... http://www.creaceed.com/prizmo/iphone/

actually customers == people who want you to worry about the codebase while they get on with their business.

Even if the source is 'out there', customers don't have the time, skills or interest in modifying it for their stock tables, inventory tracking systems or CRM modules. Meanwhile your open source codebase is losing bugs and growing ever larger (and harder for your competitors to assimilate :-)