Yes. It might be confusing the lack of apparent centralization for a need where a diffuse format already accomplishes the desired goal. Either there has to be

Yes. It might be confusing the lack of apparent centralization for a need where a diffuse format already accomplishes the desired goal. Either there has to be an unmet Tragedy of the Commons that open standards/academia isn't addressing or that people would be willing to pay for. I can't see either because it would probably already exist. Maybe we need more crowdfunding of open source and independent researchers that are independent of academia. I really think open source hardware is crying out for a project and a community to revolutionize how a community can participated with the mostly closed EDA / silicon stack, because frankly, I don't trust anything I can't get the source code to.