Bunnie Huang's Novena Open Source Laptop Launches Via Crowd Supply 88
First time accepted submitter ogcricket (3557713) writes with news about a new laptop designed by Andrew Huang and Sean Cross. "Earlier this year, the two Singapore-based engineers fashioned a laptop made almost entirely from open source hardware, hardware whose designs are freely available to the world at large. They called it Project Novena. Anyone could review the designs, looking for bugs and security flaws, and at least in theory, that meant you could be confident the machine was secure from top to bottom, something that’s more desirable than ever in the post-Edward Snowden age....The original idea was simply to encourage others to build their own open source laptops at home. But now the pair are taking the project a step further. Starting today, you can order your own pre-built Novena laptop through the crowd-funding site Crowd Supply, and it will ship out in the coming weeks. Much like Kickstarter, Crowd Supply is place where you can put up money to help fund a company and then get a product in exchange."
Time to change the rallying cry... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Great project, but.... (Score:3, Funny)
How does an open-source machine cost so much more than a closed, proprietary one sold by a for-profit corporation?
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OK: HOW DOES AN OPEN-SOURCE MACHINE COST SO MUCH MORE..