The question was: "What companies are you excited about?"
I won't argue these organisatoins are perfect. Is that your criterion? I'm excited because I feel they are going in the right direction. That's why I'm using their services. I use Brave, but don't have the time to dive into things they are doing well or doing wrong. That's what we have investigative journalism for. I'm very happy to pay for that. By the way, I also use Signal. I also have a Fairphone. etc etc.
The next step after excitement is of course to convert excitement into action, and to actually support these organisations, through buying their stuff or making donations. Not because they are doing everything well, but because I personally believe they are helping to improve society.
> I'm curious how long you need to wait before you declare it non-open-source.
I'm not sure there is a practical upper limit. Ghostscript for example for years only released as open source the version prior to the current one, and no one claimed that the existence of a proprietary fork invalidated the status of the open source version, no matter how long the delay between releases.
Admittedly there are differences, in Signal's case the deployed version is not currently released at all, but the worst case would be "open source version is no longer maintained", at which point I suspect that several forks would spring up, causing some confusion until one gained traction and dominance.
Right now, the latest release is 9 months old. This is certainly annoying and even concerning, but not yet cause for outright alarm, which can probably wait until March has gone by with no announced release schedule.
I won't argue these organisatoins are perfect. Is that your criterion? I'm excited because I feel they are going in the right direction. That's why I'm using their services. I use Brave, but don't have the time to dive into things they are doing well or doing wrong. That's what we have investigative journalism for. I'm very happy to pay for that. By the way, I also use Signal. I also have a Fairphone. etc etc.
The next step after excitement is of course to convert excitement into action, and to actually support these organisations, through buying their stuff or making donations. Not because they are doing everything well, but because I personally believe they are helping to improve society.