alt Hacker News> This isn't remotely shocking, just look at Redis, Elastic and many many others... Open Source works until it doesn't.
I would argue that redis and elastic are signs that open source does work, albeit not well as a for-profit business. Open source hardware has a completely different set of problems.
If it doesn't work well for such high profile names, why would we expect it to work at all for an unheard of nobody? Doesn't that mean that kpen source doesn't actually work?