I'm not sure I understand the motive of this, other than saber rattling. Are they really fighting for everything to be open sourced to this extreme extent? Or should we assume this is the "script-kiddie" arm of Anon doing this as opposed to the more "noble"[1] work we see sometimes?
[1]debatable, and none of the above is necessarily what I believe
This is the AntiSec arm, which basically decided to simply attack security vendors and contractors to show them as snake oil salesmen. It wasn't really related to any sort of moral vision or goal, just fucking things up.
This has absolutely nothing to do with open-source. Please, don't confuse things. Also, it's not because the source code is now public that it became open.
I dont know where you got that from. If you read the email thread it's clear Anon was asking for money from the beginning. It's clear extorsion. How is that at all Symantec trying to bribe them?
[1]debatable, and none of the above is necessarily what I believe