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Question which I can't get out of my head: It would stand to reason that the ruling on this case would affect other commercial phone and/or OS manufacturers, but how would it reflect on some OSS projects, where the coders are not necessarily employees of the project?

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It wouldn't have any impact, and that's the point.

To block all encryption apps, you'd need to censor the internet and check every digital device at the border. The government needs to understand that this is the implication of the direction in which it wishes to take us.

Bruce Schneier goes into more detail: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/back_doors_wo...

We are talking about physical phones produced by Apple, to which law enforcement has physical access. From my understanding this is more about Apple as a hardware manufacturer, who just happens to also produce the software for the same phone.

I fail to relate the scenario we have now to software project (though no doubt the FBI will try to).

With hardware you typically have a clear manufacturer. However things might get interesting if more people make their own hardware using open-source designs.

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