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Cloud computing was arguably an outgrowth of inability to prevent piracy and everyone being encouraged to open source everything.

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No, it was an outgrowth of infrastructure work being a niche trade, and capacity management by startups ( and mature companies), being a hard task.

This point is well known, and pretty much in every cloud providers marketing material.

So, even though it's impossible to prevent piracy, effectively forcing you to hide the code behind an internet API, the real reason to do so is something else, as proven by marketing literature?

If I could re-engineer MongoDB so that a monkey could administer, you'd recommend I still use the cloud model rather than sell binaries?

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