I've always found it fascinating that companies that makes specialized hardware devices like this lean so hard into proprietary software, as if that's the thing

I've always found it fascinating that companies that makes specialized hardware devices like this lean so hard into proprietary software, as if that's the thing that gives them the edge on the competition. If anything the hardware is the hard part to copy and open source drivers could do nothing but benefit them and ensure wide platform compatibility and longevity, and yet so many companies like this insist on closing things up and forcing hackers to reverse engineer everything. It's bizarre logic to me.