Very few successful opensource projects is the product of an single entity dedicated just to that project but is the product of an process where someone in comp

Very few successful opensource projects is the product of an single entity dedicated just to that project but is the product of an process where someone in company A develops something that company A need but don't mind sharing with companies B and C if it means improving the product beyond what their own resources can support. And due to cartel legislation the absolutely easiest way for this to happen is in the context of an open and transparent project. The fact that open source exists in an "intentionally created" loophole in the regulations designed to prevent big companies from "conspiring against the market" is a huge part of what took the mostly failed academic concept of "committee controlled" free software and turned it into an industry dominating "open source" movement with no clear leadership.