I'm not sure how related it is, but the average age of people involved in ham is pretty old. I went to a few meetups near me and the average person there was at

I'm not sure how related it is, but the average age of people involved in ham is pretty old. I went to a few meetups near me and the average person there was at least 60 years old. So it might be that these apps are made by an older generation with different norms around open source. Could just be an EE vs CS thing too, since open source is less common the EE world.