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It doesn't have to be stressful or full-commitment. I'm cool with $50k ARR.

Title should be: I don't want to take VC money and I don't think you do either

It's kind of fishy this is the only comment OP responded to. And OP's other most recent comment was on a basecamp thread

Isn't the issue just drivers?

I like how that comment has more responses than the OP

I only read the abstract (first paragraph), so maybe I'm way off base here. I'm about to go to bed and want to bang this out:

I think it's three pieces that need to come together. The source, the system it's running on, and the user. You don't necessarily need all 3

1. If you only have the user and the source but not the system then you're screwed. I could print out the entire FreeBSD source and docs, go back in time to 1820 and it would be pretty much useless since I need a C compiler and a million transistors, power supply and a bunch of other stuff. Obviously this is an extreme example, since most of the time you'd just have a slightly incomplete system (e.g. crappy build scripts but you know they built it on a unix system 2 years ago) so it's usually workable

2. If it's the user and the system then that's basically proprietary software. You can reverse engineer the source. Tedious but doable

3. If it's the source and the system, then you might be able to get a new user study both and understand everything again. Depends on the complexity of the source/system and the docs.

I think of it as an organism, like it can be damaged and heal itself. There is redundancy between these 3 axes. Depending the circumstances, you can heal it or it might be permanently damaged

Plus you get free PR

I'm glad it's Lua since it gives me a leg up over all the other companies with devs who don't want to learn a new language. OpenResty is slept on so hard.

why

you are being very pedantic

The nice thing about RSS is that it's never gonna die

What a wonderful argument. Really shows your intellect.