[oblio]

At some point reality kicks in and if the thing is not economically viable, it won't work, long term.

"Real hackers" should pay more attention to economics and to quote the anonymous guy, "gatekeep" less, if they don't want to be stuck in a box forever, whining about the "evil" Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.

[AsyncAwait]

The goal is to make it viable by developing enough of an ecosystem around it for it to be desirable by a wider audience. Accoutring to your approach, we wouldn't have free software at all, because it flies in the face of conventional economics. Someone with a little more vision had to prove it works, despite all the naysayers.

> if they don't want to be stuck in a box forever, whining about the "evil" Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.

If supporting a real hardware platform that is independent of "evil" Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. isn't taking practical steps to not be stuck with them, I don't know what is.

[oblio]

I’m a supporter of FLOSS. FLOSS succeded where it did precisely because it made sense, economically. It was a novel approach, but it made sense.

This whole hacker - economist/businessman dichotomy is harfmul to the evolution of open solutions, be them software or hardware or both.