Yeah but would come at a cost for their own gateway sales, which is the product they actually want to develop and support.
Let’s be fair here TTN is far more than the gateway, they’ve put a ton of work into the backend - open for everyone to use, dealing with the LoRa Alliance and having all these great resources like the Website/Forum/Slack we all love. They wouldn’t be able to do that on razor-thin gateway margins, that’s for sure.
The only downside is this was probably also the reason they went all-in with a PIC32/Microchip gateway solution, to me far from ideal compared to an open and hardware independent Linux one - a solution also proving troublesome to them considering the Kickstarter delays.