IMHO, I would not lose heart with open-source if I were in your position. I am not a developer, but am deeply into technology especially for privacy and sovereignty purposes. I won't use closed source applications for any critical or important function (including all communication), and avoid closed source if at all possible. As our freedoms and daily lives are affected more and more by the encroaching surveillance apparatus, others will follow suit at an increasing pace, out of necessity. For example, when evaluating a VPN, Mullvad for example; if it is not open source I will not use it. Then it comes down to reputation over time, feedback and actions of the organization, people involved, reliability over time, response to state pressure, rate of improvement and adaptation etc etc… none of those factors can be copied and pasted. Copy the code and call it "Nullvad", charge half the price, and I am still not interested. In addition, and perhaps more important: - Computer code is language which changes our reality through software and computing devices. - Spoken and written language changes our reality through the hearts and minds, and thus actions, of men and women. Same concept, different medium. Imagine not speaking or writing anything unless it was copyrighted and paid for. Imagine only writing or speaking your mind in exchange for paper debt slave tokens one can print, as opposed to writing and speaking your mind to invoke change in the hearts and minds of the good souls around you. Once we extinguish the debt slavery control system, and the majority of our energy and output is not stolen, we will all be abundant. Shouldn't that be the goal and reward, as opposed to prioritizing paper money? I understand there is nuance behind this, as we all have bills to pay, but chasing paper money, and measuring our impact or setting our goals in paper money should not be the guiding light. In summary I believe in time that ALL closed source software will be distrusted and rejected by non-slaves, and that open-source software will be embraced and flourish based mainly on factors other than the code base (see above).