What do you think about the commoditization of keyboardio, if the creator calls it quit? Yes keyboardio is opensourced like ergodox, but ergodox is being made by many manufacturers and has become a commodity. While keyboardio model01 consists of custom parts like keycaps, case. What do you think are the odds that someone would pickup the ball and start to make clones?
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I think the best positioned to take over the hardware manufacture - if Keyboardio stopped - is the Chinese factories that already make the unit and will have the tooling an experience to do so.
I sugest in other threads, the Kaleidoscope and Chrysalis softwares are the crown jewels of Keyboardio. As users we should be better at advocating other manufacturers and hobbyists to use this software in their keyboards so that - in your words - becomes a commodity firmware to rival QMK. As this old Apple poster suggests, Software Sells Systems. As the main vendor of Kaleidoscope, Keyboardio (and the prospects of their hardware without the parent firm as per your original post) will benefit most from more efforts to promote this firrmware.
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