What Pine has done is break the chicken/egg cycle of "there's no hardware -> there's no software" I disagree with your assessment. There are plenty of competen

What Pine has done is break the chicken/egg cycle of "there's no hardware -> there's no software" I disagree with your assessment. There are plenty of competent programmers who are working on pushing forward this software, and even following from the outside I've watched massive improvements over time. We needed (more) open hardware before the software could get properly started, and that's what Pine provided.