I can understand the Itanium community feeling like they are trying to do The Open Source Thing by volunteering to keep it alive, only to be (what might feel li

I can understand the Itanium community feeling like they are trying to do The Open Source Thing by volunteering to keep it alive, only to be (what might feel like being) summarily dismissed by the rest of the community. I’m afraid that the community has grown so enormously and is subject to such powerful economic forces that if there are more people who need/want better EFI support (or whatever it may be) than who can keep up Itanium support, the Itanium community is probably out of luck. I daydreamed a bit about picking up some Itanium equipment used just so I could say I’ve experienced it. It looks like a lot of power hungry gear with a lot of unsupported components that was all originally bound to some black-box vendor support contract. It would’ve been a hoot to have a big 90s mainframe running IRC or something, but I decided to allocate my hobby time elsewhere.