I work in a very very (very) similar area to yourself, we should talk one day.

Still not sure I agree, Node-RED for instance is open-source, has no office and the lead developer often develops it streaming on twitch from his home in the Uk. Yes Flowforge are building to offer enterprise support. But we both know and you have written about how Node-RED is eating OT/IT. Both of our offices for instance are in a shared, but different innovation building.

I do find it interesting and misleading, that EMQ X has the line about its innovation centre. And it does perhaps make me think twice about the enterprise support offered.

Just not sure an Open Source project should be ignored because of it.

Interesting post regardless.