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- Embed this notice@hazlin >would be the sheer security in knowing it wasn't setup with backdoors. (especially for a cell phone like device or tablet)
Unfortunately, every single cell phone at the moment is filled with backdoors, as all mobile chipsets either contain malicious circuits (very old ones) or malicious software (I'm fairly certain that's pretty much mandated by current mobile protocol designs).
For example, the Replicant project found a backdoor on one phones modem that allowed accessing the files on the device - thankfully they were able to disable it.
>(of course, I think source code is a poor design document... it would be better than nothing.)
Properly structured and commented source code serves very well as a design document, too bad most source code isn't.
>are people selling consulting time. Maybe you can't easily get the parts, but you don't have to, in order to make a profit (or for people to benefit from your knowledge).
It didn't come to me that maybe there's potential profit to be made when it comes to consulting as to which hardware is suitable, as freedom enjoyers are generally happy to offer that sort of knowledge out of goodwill.
Now that I think about it, I am quite good at configuring free software and also getting it to compile and I've made a trivial profit so far consulting people in doing so, but I'm not sure as to the non-trivial profitability of such, considering that most local businesses seem to all be heavily scammed by proprietary software or SaaSS companies and don't realize that free software exists (I've talked to someone who had never heard of GNU, despite being employed by a business that did most of their computation with GNU/Linux VMs (except hosted on someone else's computer)).