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wraggster
August 6th, 2013, 22:44
Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang on why he decided to build an open source laptop (http://www.zdnet.com/building-the-open-source-laptop-how-one-engineer-turned-the-geek-fantasy-to-reality-7000018987/), how the slowing of Moore's Law is making it easier for individuals and small outfits to compete against major corporations in the computer hardware market and what hobbyist hardware makers in the U.S. could learn from China's Shanzhai, famed for their cheap clones of the iPhone and other popular handsets.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/08/06/1257245/the-open-source-laptop-and-the-golden-age-of-open-hardware