And the solution to cavities is to increase self-dentistry literacy? The solution to a bridge collapsing is to increase civil engineering literacy? The solution to a plane crash caused by a cracked turbine blade is to increase casual aerospace engineering literacy? How much of how many literacies will we be willing to acquire so as to balance the responsibility we ask of every other profession and even those who are low and unskilled?

This incredibly selfish point of view put forth by a particular sect of _OSS polls sufficiently well at the engineer's only meeting in Palo Alto and nowhere else.

When people were coming up with the idea of computer literacy being ubiquitous like math, they meant math like addition and subtraction. To make the kind of impact that "free/libre" advocates want the everyday Joe to be responsible for, Joes need to know the CS equivalents of perturbation theory and how to solve partial differential equations. It's not happening, but believing that it can happen allows those ostensibly in favor of it to keep acting like they have a plan, like they want a solution.

As long as the hardware hacker is stuck in the mindset of what 0.01% of users want to do with devices, while they may find sympathy from the 0.1% who are software engineers, many of whom gather on this site, this is not even blowing at the gauge from halfway across the room in terms of moving the needle. Either figure out what is important to the consumer and how it aligns with your interests or just go home.