if you look at the Open Source Software community, you'll notice the FSF pulls the standard towards stability and publicly shames those who try to shift the standard towards proprietary.
but if you look at the Open Hardware community, you'll notice that it is lacking a sizable FSF community and it is sliding back into proprietary silos (Aka it is slowly dying in terms of actual openness).
indeed, the default open and cooperation requires what social scientists call a cultural subsidy which historically is contributed by zealots.