content: Is there an Open Source movement for hardware/infrastructure? I was thinking about the open source movement for software, but I had never considered it for ISPs or hardware manufacturing. What would be the purpose of installing an open source operating system on a phone if the hardware itself wasn't open, more so, how could you protect your privacy/freedom if the mobile phone itself was connected to a network run by a government/company? I'm not so much talking about the practical concerns of implementing this idea, though that may be why I had never considered it, but nonetheless, it's interesting to think that the open source movement for technology is mostly software oriented, while the infrastructure/hardware needed to support the software itself is not.