Brought to you by our $20k/year annual membership fee that Home Assistant, an open source project, pays to be a member of the CSA alliance and be able to contribute to the open source Matter reference implementation.
This made me curious about how Home Assistant is funded. Looks like it's mostly through Nabu Casa, which is a SaaS backend for Home Assistant that costs $6.50/mo or $65/yr in the US https://www.nabucasa.com/pricing/
I mean, the purists will argue you can still fork it.
But then you'll eventually have the same problem all the Chromium forks have now with Manifest v3.
At least there's some form of "committee" in the case of Matter, but I'm slightly less excited about it now having learned this.