The most embarassing thing, if you really think about it is- all these repairers and tinkerers- they want to put work into a product- and you deny them, because

The most embarassing thing, if you really think about it is- all these repairers and tinkerers- they want to put work into a product- and you deny them, because of some shortsighted sense of property and a fear of loss of controll. Look for example at games pre-steam- these where gated-communitys, walled in plattforms and gardens. All those modders, where putting in work anyway. And instead of taking a percentage, and supplying a plattform - we shut them out. Cant wait for someone to offer a hardware-steam version for IOT devices and vehicles. Add a simple scripting language like Lua to that - and suddenly - one ecosystem to rule them all, thanks to all those tinkering customers, who basically send you free money. But hey- lawyers and small sighted software department CEOs will see that it does not come to that.