I think there is a conspiracy to make it so there are as few small open compute devices with mobile network access as possible.
The conspiracy theory goes like this: DARPA likes to get first to a lot of technologies so that it can have patents that it can leverage. It then licenses patents to large manufacturers under the guise of assisting economic and technical development. But the real point is to have leverage over big companies to make sure they play ball with whatever priority the government has in the future. The theory is that this is why so few companies will make a Linux phone even though its literally cheaper to ship a device that isn't locked down (takes more technical effort to lock down a device than leave it open), and it is more expensive to write custom low level and secure systems software than it is to use existing open source which is now someone elses liability. So there is no reason to not ship Linux varients of any given phone if there is even a small demand for it.
But it seems no one but amature developers and small developers are able to distribute a Linux phone. A lot of these bespoke devices end up waitlisted, which shows there is excess demand.
No large company that was early in the smart phone game (implies they've used a DARPA patent at least once), seems to be able to get Linux on any device that has all of the following (small, network capable, has a screen).
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I think there is a conspiracy to make it so there are as few small open compute devices with mobile network access as possible.
The conspiracy theory goes like this: DARPA likes to get first to a lot of technologies so that it can have patents that it can leverage. It then licenses patents to large manufacturers under the guise of assisting economic and technical development. But the real point is to have leverage over big companies to make sure they play ball with whatever priority the government has in the future. The theory is that this is why so few companies will make a Linux phone even though its literally cheaper to ship a device that isn't locked down (takes more technical effort to lock down a device than leave it open), and it is more expensive to write custom low level and secure systems software than it is to use existing open source which is now someone elses liability. So there is no reason to not ship Linux varients of any given phone if there is even a small demand for it.
But it seems no one but amature developers and small developers are able to distribute a Linux phone. A lot of these bespoke devices end up waitlisted, which shows there is excess demand.
No large company that was early in the smart phone game (implies they've used a DARPA patent at least once), seems to be able to get Linux on any device that has all of the following (small, network capable, has a screen).
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