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"Replace the innards" doesn't work for most laptops

This isn't "most laptops". This is a custom hand built enclosure for an open source computer[1] designed specifically to be user upgradable. Your entire comment makes no sense in the context of this article.

[1] http://www.kosagi.com/w/index....

"Replace the innards" doesn't work for most laptops

This isn't "most laptops". This is a custom hand built enclosure for an open source computer[1] designed specifically to be user upgradable. Your entire comment makes no sense in the context of this article.

[1] http://www.kosagi.com/w/index....

His standard of open source is very different from the IBM BIOS rewrite:
Novena PVT HW Design Source
if you go there you can download all board design files to go make the PCBs and get them populated at your favorite board shop. (mechanical sources for the case are also available). This allows anyone to make improvements to the hardware as well as the software and feed it back into the community.

He also made component selections that further the open source accessibility: the CPU does not require an NDA to get the full documentation (unlike, say, the Broadcom chip in the Pi, or any Marvell chip ever), and the same goes for the rest of the chips on the board. No Bluetooth since ALL BT chips require a blob driver, but he can include a WiFi card that has open source firmware so he does.

The campaign was successful enough that they have also partnered with Jon Nettleton to create an open source driver for the 2d/3d graphics blocks inside the CPU which only has a proprietary driver now, this will help every Linux distro and user that has an i.MX6 board from any vendor run a completely open stack.

Feel free to correct my impression that after someone rewrote the IBM BIOS not everyone could go download IBMs design files (note: this is different than having "PC/AT compatible" designs)

More details than this? http://www.kosagi.com/w/index....

What do you want, his sister's phone number too?

Depends, is she hot?

What do you want, his sister's phone number too?

Building an Open Source Laptop
By Bunnie Huang | 01/08/2014

http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/

Blueprints:

http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page

but /. doesn't want to post about it. so here it is.

Building an Open Source Laptop

By Bunnie Huang | 01/08/2014

http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/

Blueprints:

http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page