Probably people like me: willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to security and actual hardware ownership. Obviously that is a vanishin

Probably people like me: willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to security and actual hardware ownership. Obviously that is a vanishingly small market - as demonstrated by the fact that a third of the comments here are from me. There is a very interesting benefit from truly open hardware ownership that I hadn't anticipated, and is kind of hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it themselves: reverse engineering is no longer a time-sink. I'd grown so accustomed to having to fight through the manufacturer's hostile anti-owner practices, while doing work that they benefit from for free... it kinda blew my mind when I hit a speedbump on my Blackbird - and was able to address it by referring to an actual schematic included with the board. Usually that step would have taken hours of scouring translations of archived Russian TV repair sites and Chinese DHT search engines - and rarely yielded anything beyond mislabeled zips containing boobytrapped boardviewer trojans. So for anyone who has ever tried to fix something, and found themselves fighting hardware that they supposedly own - figure that massive benefit into the price. But that too is a small market.