alt Hacker NewsIt would be ideal if we could come up with a way to get people paid to maintain a community firmware. However, that's a considerably harder problem than "you absolutely must allow community firmware to be flashed".
It would be ideal if we could come up with a way to get people paid to maintain a community firmware. However, that's a considerably harder problem than "you absolutely must allow community firmware to be flashed".
I agree. It's a harder problem and it's the more critical problem.
Businesses aren't incentivized to maintain it and hoping that the community can support it by opening it is perhaps necessary, but it's far from sufficient.
Either the business or maintainers need to be sufficiently incentivized--whether it's through funding, reputation, or something else (graduate-student torture).