Feel very encouraged by the news and stories below:

https://www.cip-project.org/announcement/2018/06/19/civil-infrastructure-platform-announces-collaboration-with-the-debian-lts-initiative-and-welcomes-cybertrust-as-a-new-member

CIP will work with Freexian, a multi-faceted services company that is leading the effort for Debian LTS, to maximize interoperability, security and LTS for open source software for embedded systems.

https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html

Freexian organizes a corporate sponsorship campaign with the goal of funding the equivalent of 1.5 full time position that will in fact be split over multiple Debian contributors who are established as independent workers.

https://www.cip-project.org/blog/2018/05/30/cip-member-spotlight-moxa

As such, we think the best solution is to build an industrial base layer via cross-enterprise collaboration, because every company has similar problems. We can reduce the maintenance effort, exchange our knowledge and make the product better.

(Noted: Moxa is a Taiwanese company.)