Most open Linux platform ever

Most open Linux platform ever

You can consider them evil for expecting "us", the community, to work for free. You can consider them good for giving us one of the most interesting and most open Linux devices ever.

Please.

While I agree that the n770 is nice hardware, and the n800 looks slightly nicer, it's just ridiculous to assert something as assinine as that it is "one of the most open Linux devices ever." There are several software components (like _everything_ to do with battery management except the very low-level support in the kernel) and undocumented hardware components which remain proprietary, which Nokia seems very hesitant to document/release and without which the device functions extremely sub-optimally.

While I remain somewhat hopeful that Nokia will rectify this situation, it's been over a year already and if their apparent pace continues, it'll be quite some time and a whole bunch more hardware releases before any such claim of the "most open Linux device" has even a ring of truth.