i’d argue that free-software and software in general is BEST developed and maintained LOCALLY in an organic and free-market (aka where competition and free-speech are not hindered in any way) and PEOPLE choose what their particular interest is and what compromise if ANY they are willing to make under FULL awareness of what the consequences might be.
the current situation is NOT ideal at all even if Purism is doing their best to maintain transparency and PUBLIC code contributions to the kernel and phosh and all the other areas that they are contributing on behalf of the almighty dollar.
ideally each town or settlement would have such free-thinkers and software experts that are willing to work with their customer base in order to have human rights respecting software and hardware …