Even free software is ultimately just nonviolent activism in the vein of Ramsay C Clark and Gene Sharp and John Kiriakou and Noam Chomsky, but confined to consumers of programmable electronics. It certainly has potential in a tech ecosystem not dominated by western universities, manufacturers, NGOs, and employers
He just waited for a letter from the feds while tying everything about the Linux Foundation to US law and claiming this as some kind of independent “anti-authoritarian” resource. He was probably happy to take contributions from the Russians and reasoned that open source projects could be used against them like other NGO-acquired causes.
RISCV people at least moved to Switzerland to avoid this for the time being. Over war on China bullshit that time if I recall correctly.