But is that what they are saying in this article? Obviously they would prefer a future where firmware like this is open source (for regulatory reasons or whatever other reason) but all they are saying in the article here is that it's wrong that you can't tinker or reverse engineer? "Unlawful to look at the code" that is a roundabout way of saying that it's unlawful to try to decompile, right?

I agree that peeking at code or decompiling it should never be illegal, nor publishing what you find. But requiring companies to publish code openly would be something completely different than allowing decompilation.