That there isn’t an open, mobile hardware platform is a failure of the community, in my opinion.. although some have the right ideas, framework as an example of

That there isn’t an open, mobile hardware platform is a failure of the community, in my opinion.. although some have the right ideas, framework as an example of an open laptop platform. We desperately need a free hard- & software (*nix) mobile platform, that is not exclusively owned by a for profit mega corporation and somewhat mainstream amongst the hacker community. Even better would be competing systems. I imagine these systems to have a high degree of modularity, incl. battery, and memory upgrades. This is not an easy undertaking. I don’t think regulating the megacorps is the answer. In a commercial world, they have the deeper pockets