🛡️ RISK BADGE: 🏛️ HIGH STABILITY
Executive Summary: What is it?
This software is owned by a neutral non-profit organization (like The Linux Foundation, CNCF, or Apache), not a single for-profit company. The Intellectual Property (IP) is held in trust for the public.
CFO / Business Impact: What does it cost/risk?
Protection from "Rug Pulls." A single vendor cannot wake up one day and change the license to proprietary (as happened with Terraform or Redis) because they don't own the project—the Foundation does. This is the safest long-term bet for infrastructure.
Technical Reality: How does it work?
Development moves slower because decisions are made by committee/voting rather than a CEO decree. But the code is guaranteed to remain open.