Don't worry, I wouldn't ban you for this.

Yes, the physical modulation implemented by LoRa transceivers is proprietary.

It is not entirely correct to say that the "mesh" itself is proprietary. Meshtastic is open source, even if it relies on proprietary radio hardware. In principle, one could take the Meshtastic codebase and adapt it to a different physical layer.

It is perfectly reasonable to reject a technology because the full stack is not open. That said, once you look closely at most modern digital and RF hardware, you are extremely likely to encounter proprietary ICs, firmware, or physical layer implementations somewhere in the stack.

It is known that the chip itself is not open source, and that is unfortunate, but the software being built on top of it absolutely is open source.

So you are only half right.

Malware? You say you’re sharing the truth but make such claims without proof.

is all meshtastic closed source?

Reticulum?

I didn't know LoRa was proprietary, it's also not concerning to me. I run Linux happily on intel, AMD, etc, etc. Thanks for the information though.

I spent over 100k sats on 2 pieces of landfill trash

Was this money that would have otherwise been spent on psychiatric meds?

Based on what OP says, is it better to go with Reticulum rather than Lora?

I'm still a project or two away from fiddling with Meshtastic.