Bitcoin is open source and that is why there are many altcoins that copies bitcoin and tried to modify it. That is just one fact. Though I am not one of the few that understand the source codes and that makes my opinion as only a hypothesis without someone knowledgeable to back-up my claims.

Well, to stop the arguments we must ask the few individuals that has full understanding and knowledge about open source, source codes and etc. So we can have a technical and close to truth answer.