> What happens to that homebrew community when they ship a microkernel with proprietary servers for everything, and nothing else? In order to do what you did i

> What happens to that homebrew community when they ship a microkernel with proprietary servers for everything, and nothing else? In order to do what you did in your WD TV-Live you flashed the image with a new one. Otherwise you wouldn't be able too. So even in the case of a micro-kernel you would just flash the pre-installed with a new one (voiding warranty). But to get to the point, do you have any idea how much effort would it take for a corporation, to write a reliable httpd server that has apache's capabilities, plugins, testing and support? Then write their own update system, dhcp client and so on? It would take huge amount of $$$ and time. And most of them would probably be buggy. So either way they would have gone with Free Software, if wanted to stay in the current price range.