Each separate company would retain it's own intellectual property [...] There is no way in hell any government is going to throw out hundreds of years of precedent simply because of the open source movement.
Maybe this is something that needs to be concidered anyway... ie, it's much more complex writing an app that will work under a given OS than making a phone that will work with other phones.
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Each separate company would retain it's own intellectual property [...] There is no way in hell any government is going to throw out hundreds of years of precedent simply because of the open source movement.
Maybe this is something that needs to be concidered anyway ... ie, it's much more complex writing an app that will work under a given OS than making a phone that will work with other phones.