OSS is a public good. Like fundamental research, it benefits everyone (and you may not know who,where,how for a long time), it requires long term work (longer than market tempos), and it needs freedom from economic and industry boombust cycles. So maybe OSS developers,maintainers and infrastructure could be funded by taxes, perhaps through an NGO. Many nations fund the arts and sciences and journalism and education so people can enjoy their fruits. And so no one patron or corporation directly dominates their direction or access.

Or is it moving HQs from tax-the-rich to tax-the-rest states?

Which laptop companies are going to sponsor laptop journalism for the English reading markets? Advertising doesn't cut it. Underwriting? Corporate subscriptions to newsletters?

About China, Skype's management acknowledged in a Financial Times interview that they had forked the client so a version distributed by their Chinese business partner filtered p2p chat against a list of words that came with the client, but that nobody was listening in and end-to-end encryption of pc2pc calls/chats was not affected by this compromise. The German version of the FBI sought permission about a year ago to tap PCs because they could not intercept Skype calls using available over-the-net tools. The recent Austrian conference may signal this has changed or that they have learned how to promptly/easily find either end of a Skype conversation and install listening tools.