Impressive!
However I don't really know how successful you guys will be at achieving this though...
Yet, I feel that every small progress there might benefit a giant part of open source hardware support as a whole.
Good luck on this, guys!
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I feel like having big names like Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs will help this a lot. OpenRGB will continue regardless of whether or not this succeeds, but if they do succeed it will make OpenRGB development a lot better and easier. Steve already says he has several companies that have agreed to take part behind the scenes but nothing's been announced officially yet.
It's fascinating to think that it requires this effort to get manufacturers to agree on open standards...it's blatantly obvious that tapping into a standardised or common ecosystem guarantees far more sucess than walled gardens. This is a simplified example, but if you are making a brand new device, say, via Kickstarter...and instead of connecting it via USB, you connect it with your own proprietary connector, that would be insane.
Yes, if you are Apple, you can pull stunts like that. And perhaps places like Razer think they can lock people into their products more, but I still think an open standard makes sense. You can add your own special stuff on top if you need to, I suppose.
(may I just add that I am one of those people who used computers when they were grey boxes and therefore RGB has never made any sense to me and Asrock's initiative of releasing motherboards that are £100 cheaper just by leaving off RGB is huge to me!)