I think this is a great explanation. I suspect there's a cognitive dissonance in the open source community because 1) the line between what is hardware and wha

I think this is a great explanation. I suspect there's a cognitive dissonance in the open source community because 1) the line between what is hardware and what is software can be fuzzy in the case of firmware and 2) hardware products usually get a free pass to be completely secret in design. Traditionally the open source community hasn't cared about buying proprietary hardware designs. Probably because there was pretty much no other option! Although open source hardware is slowly becoming a thing... it's performance is generally perhaps 10% of the top performing product out there, in any area.