I've been thinking for some time what to answer and concluded that the normie world is a world of pain.

We - as in FOSS OS users and FOSS paradigm users - desperately need open hardware, so that the rest of the industry could eat all the rubber dicks they want without affecting us significantly.

And I mean not only hardware design, but fabs.

It may seem an impossible future, with semiconductor deficit etc, and Taiwan being that important.

And with starting a fab being so expensive.

Still, they only way a conclusive FOSS victory resulting in even balance happens is if there is a public fab producing general-purpose hardware with public design.

Because right now lots of resources are being wasted on catching up in inherently disadvantageous areas, like supporting proprietary hardware which is always harder for FOSS developers than for MS or Apple.

Without full-chain FOSS hardware production it'll always be bare survival.