At this point I would expect that there were open source cars, laptops, televisions, etc. But as far as I know there are only open source mobile phones. Why is that?
I think mainly because it’s a lot harder to make a physical object than software, so the smaller players and nonprofits who support open source are essentially unable to compete with conventional hardware companies, who have no desire to go open source.
I think mainly because it’s a lot harder to make a physical object than software, so the smaller players and nonprofits who support open source are essentially unable to compete with conventional hardware companies, who have no desire to go open source.