[dang]

I think you have a point. We took "open source" out of the title as misleading, since the project apparently isn't there yet.

[cottonseed]

Even if they release the original design files, it won't be open source hardware. Requiring binary blobs clearly violates the Necessary Hardware Criterion. See the OSH Definition 1.0:

http://www.oshwa.org/definition/

[cottonseed]

Err, Necessary SOFTWARE Criterion.