I'm not a fan of OpenMoko since the whole thing seems less intelligently thought through by FSF before they came forth with their conditional endorsement. The

I'm not a fan of OpenMoko since the whole thing seems less intelligently thought through by FSF before they came forth with their conditional endorsement. The implementation behind attempts to make "free" software and hardware are not always right out of the gate. But I believe that the tech of the Lemote being "behind current PC technology" is acceptable if-and-only-if this netbook remains fully hackable as a device. Hardware naturally does not fall under the same conditions as software - you can't easily "make copies" of hardware and "distribute" them, but you can (as the creator) document well the hardware and how it works (interfaces with software) such that users can write useful programs to interface with it, or improve upon the hardware design by pointing out flaws revealed by the software you write - not possible if the hardware is not documented and accessible only via proprietary firmware. Also, as users it is our right to know what the software on a system is doing, and when firmware is locked and proprietary, we don't have full disclosure of the activity of the software - not every user out there can reverse engineer or hack their software to determine if their rights are being violated. Sounds 1984, I know, but these are valid concerns, I think, for more accessibility in the hardware our software runs on.