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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 16h \ parent \ on: DISCUSS: Why is it so hard to design an open-source smartphone? Design
This, who's going to invest the substantial sum required to manufacturing opensource chips at economical scale?
National security states won't make it easy even if there were groups with enough resources to do it... a lot of people will fall out of windows or at least find themselves indicted over a parking ticket if they try undermining the ability to track everyone everywhere all the time.
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There is a rockchip phone https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone_pro/
If anyone can do it'd be a state-industry like China trying to soften the market while giving themselves options outside of US/CIAwan chips, but yea I'm sure there are plenty of asterisks... and opensource design is only one part in the manufacturing the physical thing
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Idealists: open source all the things
NSA enters the chat
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