If the M-Wave FM-1 and the Headrush Flex Prime have taught me anything it's that if you offer an open hardware platform, you will be blessed with a vibrant community and infinite custom software/firmware. Just make and sell flexible hardware and the community will take care of the rest.

opening your hardware when it’s discontinued should be required by law

I love my new VCS. Great as a media center and emulator. No smart TV crap here.

I don't think I had even heard of this system until now. Cool that they're doing this though.

Yep. Ideally it shouldn't have had "dependencies on Atari infrastructure for authentication and software" to begin with, but sure, relative to the horrific state of just about everything else I guess this bare minimum deserves praise.