Why I left Pine64
I am a big FOSS proponent (I almost exclusively use FOSS), but I find it difficult to not become disillusioned recently. It seems the large corporations like FANGs are largely pushing OSS to use volunteer work to make software a commodity, while trying to accumulate more and more data, which they consider their main value.<p>At the same time we have companies like pine, who seem to support FOSS through relatively open hardware, but which to me seem increasingly more about a way to make a profit of the FOSS trend by using  volunteer work without any investment from their end. I question if they are actually interested in their devices actually being functional for regular use. See also this article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32330043" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32330043</a><p>Finally we have distributions like Manjaro who seem more interested in growing their slice of the pie at the cost of other distributions instead of growing the whole Linux ecosystem. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hxpj87&#x2F;change_in_manjaro_team_composition_announcements&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;linux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hxpj87&#x2F;change_in_man...</a>