Sorry, you're living in the GPU scamcoin world with the statement that current miners are force down-clocked by miner producers.

If you've been around mining for 10 years like I have, and been involved in producing modified firmware, and in my case I was possibly the first to do it, you'd know that the miners are not made to be run slower to make people buy them cheaper.

Also, there are no 3rd party firmware versions for current miners, only previous ones.

As for 3rd party firmware making them run faster, yeah like you can make anything run faster, with extra cooling and shorter lifespan.
As if the manufacturers want to handle warranty on miners that the buyers have destroyed by over clocking them ...
Bitcoin is about producing money, so people do all sorts of stupid things trying to get more money and usually end up getting less.

Anyway, your original statement was about making things more open and freely available ... to run closed source, fee driven firmware, that violates licenses.
That seems to be an obvious oxymoron ...

Meanwhile, this week I released open source code to use the S17 chip (that someone else worked out the commands) ... oh well ...