My point about Synology being the MS of NAS is actually about this. Spend a little development time making DSM more portable but with a caveat of no support on

My point about Synology being the MS of NAS is actually about this. Spend a little development time making DSM more portable but with a caveat of no support on non-Synology hw. I think we'd still arrive at a weird place where we see people buying Asustor or other NAS hw just to run DSM even if it's not supported and but not a complete hack. People buy convenience and DSM offers everything NAS related it really well. I suppose they have internal plans to make DSM go the other way and lock out attempts like Xpenology. They aren't late either as other rival is still miles behind.