This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 11:21:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 21:07:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> (Abscissa) wrote:
>> B. Physical interface:
>> ----------------------
>>
>> By this I mean both actual input devices (keyboards, 
>> controllers, pointing devices) and also the mappings from 
>> their affordances (ie, what you can do with them: push button 
>> x, tilt stick's axis Y, point, move, rotate...) to specific 
>> actions taken on the visual representation (navigate, modify, 
>> etc.)
>
> Also guess why Linux has problems with hardware support even 
> though they have all programmers they need who can write pretty 
> much anything.

Because hardware costs money, reverse engineering hardware is a 
specialized discipline, reverse engineering the drivers means you 
need twice as many people and a more rigorous process for license 
reasons, and getting drivers wrong could brick the device, 
requiring you to order another copy?

Because Linux *doesn't* have all that many programmers compared 
to the driver writers for literally every device in existence?