because having some capital class dictate the project is entirely antithetical to having the choice to contribute
Why?
the AI stuff is just being contributed by a few large companies who want it
Contributing something because you want it is how free software works.
DRM has absolutely nothing do to with this.
I will say directly that this model of governance is incompatible with the tenets of free software.
Which of the four freedoms does it fall short of?
I wouldn’t trust any commercial studio with a Morrowind remake. OpenMW + Tamriel Rebuilt is where it’s at.
Repeating it doesn’t make it true. As long as the code is released under a FOSS license, the development model doesn’t matter.