Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

I've also been solidly on the hobbyist side, back when I was a college student porting drivers to FreeBSD just because I wanted to (though I did a couple of times get a "free" graphics card from a contractor who would have had to do the porting otherwise, and I thought that was a pretty sweet deal at the time and I still appreciate what they did for me).

I agree there are some weaknesses in corporate interests supporting shared infrastructure of open source, particularly for efforts like reproducible builds or CI farms. But of the open source software that I'm relying on, I see it overwhelmingly written and maintained by caring open source developers who are doing it in their day jobs, not by people like me-in-college doing it for fun.

[1] I've stooped as low as "run closed source simulators as part of otherwise pure open source driver development" and "hold unreleased-hardware driver code behind closed doors for up to a year before releasing under the MIT license", and I once got burned by a vendor who never let us release our few thousand lines of work we did before we caught on that the project was doomed. So, not as pure as the more pure people I know, who incidentally are also employed full time in free software.