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> You'd expect hacker types (folks who hang out here on HN) would be 100% behind an open-source operating system

Nope

I work on embedded security which is why there is no IoT shit at home.

I am forced to be tech support for my family, which is why they have iPhones and why i support locked-down hardware - less pain for me removing sideloaded shit than when they had Android devices.

I am bored of maintaining things - i just want them to work, which is why my WRT54G is gone and I use UniFi gear.

And I am tired of "slightly annoying, but i am supporting open source", i just want my laptop to wake up from sleep every time and last a while day, which is why I use a MacBook.

If it was open source IN ADDITION to doing everything else i want, sure. Being open source by itself is NOT a feature i am willing to pay for with any inconvenience. And being locked down IS a convenience when you are managing devices for people with no digital hygiene (aka: family)

>>dmitry+(OP)
And if you were the one locking down what the phones could run, instead of the duopoly?

>>gaussw+Af
I was the one maintaining my WRT54G and my Linux laptop. Took too much time. That is the point.

>>gaussw+Af
I'm days later responding, sorry. I should have suggested more clearly: what if a Linux-based solution gave you the administrative control meeting or exceeding what you currently expect from less open solutions? Would you pay for it?

>>gaussw+z58
Yes, but it doesn't. In Russian we have a saying:

If, if only, in my mouth -- mushroom grew, well then it would not be a mouth, it would be a garden. (The point is to not engage in impossible hypotheticals)

>>dmitry+Erc
That's a great phrase, and applicable here.

I don't see why there can't be a well-funded effort to build a powerful MDM for Linux, but to my knowledge no one comes close. I'd think it would be very profitable.