Bunnie's open-source laptop project (Novena) also had similar philosophies with part selection, with the addition of another requirement I think is pretty impor

Bunnie's open-source laptop project (Novena) also had similar philosophies with part selection, with the addition of another requirement I think is pretty important to the maker/hacker community: "You can download, without NDA, the datasheets for all the components, and key peripheral options are available so it’s possible to build a complete firmware from source with no opaque blobs." [1] I wonder how many of the Minnow's components require NDA/signup/etc for datasheets, or to access (proprietary) firmware. [1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686