The issue is the people who want watch movements to be "open source" have neither the tooling nor the skill to actually.... you know... make watch movements.

Which is probably why they're trying to raise like 240,000 CHF to sell some watches at 30k each probably to get the machining tools. Seriously idk how much you explored that site, but somewhere they said they were going to do a short run of their first 10 watches at 30k each, and needed at least 8 backers to reach 240k to be able to move forward with financing the project. Doubt they'll reach that, but people are crazy. It's like a fancy, overproduced kickstarter.

But, while I think there are certainly some bits that are useless and have some major red flags, adding to knowledge I don't think hurts anything. It may give people ideas on how to tinker more. New viewpoints they hadn't considered. Now I'm sure there's not crazy amounts of innovation happening in watchmaking everyday, but I mean even a bunch of Ochs und Junior use a base ETA movement with a little tampering. It only takes one brilliant mind to see something new and tinker.

And even though I literally just said "I'm sure there's not crazy amounts of innovation happening" there have to have been some pretty good advancements since whatever patents expired and became "open-source" though I must admit I don't keep on top of all the horological advancements happening. I have no idea how long a horological patent lasts, but Omega loves to jack themselves off over their great co-axial escapement that seemingly is a bit better. I'd say the anti-magnetic bits are important on their innovation too but I think a large part of that is silicon balance springs over metal.

Yeah the open source movement thing is supposed to be about making a more accessible movement that people can create at home or some bullshit, and essentially no one will do that, but it has potential to at least play games with ETA and Sellita. Maybe if you continue to not hear back from them, you can start using these things instead of whatever old expired patent you feel like.