GlugGlug machines aren't hard to make, mostly because the bios is already
made and it runs on hardware which can be found for quite cheap on ebay (for
example). The real challenge is making a new product with relatively new
hardware running that same BIOS, and unfortunately there is a spiral (in my
opinion) where :
- Producers create a product and don't liberate their bios so they ship it
with a proprietary one
- Small developers solve the problem on that device because they can't mass
produce something new
- Others try to mass produce but don't have the financial support
- Since they don't do something fully freed people just keep buying the first
one
I really believe that this can be done, and done well. Maybe by us, maybe by
ThinkPenguin or maybe by someone new who would arrive soon, we don't know.
Until then, unfortunately, we have to depend on what the market gives us.
