Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source.
Idea originated here in December 2012:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686
Novena Info: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
ZDnet Article:
http://www.zdnet.com/building-the-open-source-laptop-how-one-engineer-turned-the-geek-fantasy-to-reality-7000018987/
Interesting quote: "...what Huang would really like to achieve is to
demonstrate you don't need a multi-million R&D budget to compete in the
hardware space.
"One of the things I've been trying to do for the past few years is change
the way that people think about hardware and [to get over] that it's not just
this impenetrable thing that only big companies can do," he said."
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Note that a blob-free driver for the Vivante GPU is available and improving:
Wladimir J. van der Laan
https://github.com/laanwj/etna_viv
https://github.com/laanwj/mesa
Looks to be 100% free.
