Ouya Will Fail, But Here's Why it Shouldn't

Admittedly, I don't follow the open source scene very much. I don't care to hack things, I've never rooted a smartphone, jailbroke a console, or done much with homebrew. The closest I got was buying an R4 card for my DS, which allowed some limited media playback and software ROMs to be played. Frankly the homebrew games that I tried on that were forgettable at best, and in general my experience has been that homebrew games are crap, akin to the shovelware on the Android marketplace.

Don't get me wrong, the world of open source has produced some very cool things, and has been very important in the development of computing. In fact, it's unavoidable. These days, the most useful things coming from the open source community are utilitarian in nature, from running simple file servers to streaming media. Open hardware platforms are a slightly different beast, but still very cool in concept, and sometimes even in practice.