Free software
Per roam:Free Software Foundation:
Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software.
a software that is primarily concerned with the liberty of the user regards to the software; thus, a dedicated user can influence the project working in the same realm as the team
one of the major components for roam:Free culture movement
"free as in free speech, not as in beer" is a popular phrase to describe the idea; thus, also applying that free software doesn't have to be free in price but it should still support the idea of openness with software
despite the moniker, several companies have been making profits from free software
roam:Red Hat is one of the biggest for-profit companies from selling support for Linux-based ecosystems
Sony made the operating systems for PS3, PS4, and PS5 from roam:FreeBSD
roam:Microsoft has been making free software (e.g., roam:Visual Studio Code, roam:TypeScript)
practically, a lot of the free software applications are created and maintained by volunteers in their spare time
furthermore, a lot of them are user-centric (e.g., roam:GNUnet, Guix package manager) usually catering to power users and tinkerers with options for advanced configurations
due to their open nature, it often represents how Openness makes diversity with the options to create forks of the software
most of them are also interested in compatibility as opposed to creating ecosystem from scratch; it is likely motivated from just pragmatism
roam:Inkscape offers importing from formats from its competitors such a Adobe Illustrator AI format
roam:LibreOffice can open several versions of Microsoft Word documents and AppleWorks documents