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by kbart 4139 days ago
No. A modern device (PC, tablet, phone) is full of firmware/binary blobs: graphic accelerator, WiFi/Bluetooth module etc. There's a small Open Source Hardware movement (http://www.oshwa.org/definition/), but it's nowhere near it's software counterpart. I hope such revelations will help to get it moving.