[tgflynn]

> because the people who produce hardware don't share with the public (and with the people with the skills and interest to create non-user-hostile software) the information necessary to run that hardware, artificially restricting the market to their business partners.

That's a claim that needs some supporting evidence.

To my knowledge the vast majority of hardware documentation is publicly available.

[salawat]

I'd like a copy of the following :

  -Broadcom processors/GPU's documentation/specifications
  -John Deere's ECM/BCM datasheets/specs
  -Nvidia's firmware documentation
  -Full, unredacted documentation of 'all' opcodes in x86_64 from Intel

I assure you. Your knowledge is dead wrong.

[pessimizer]

Do you think that people aren't porting Linux to phones the second they come out is because they don't have the time, skills or desire? It's because they have to reverse engineer everything.