Alphabet’s Nest has announced the release of OpenThread, an open source version of its Thread mesh networking protocol, on GitHub, under a BSD license. It’s a strange announcement, as the Thread Group itself hasn’t actually made it, but Nest is pretty upbeat about the news – as it should be, given that it has been the main driver behind the protocol. It reads a little like the Thread Group isn’t as upbeat about the news as Nest – perhaps hinting at some internal strategy disagreements in the Group. A blog post by the Thread Group only notes that it is “very pleased” at the development, before clarifying that Thread itself is not open source, just that Nest has offered an…