Last month, we wrote about what could be the world’s first open source laptop, Novena. Developed by Andrew ‘Bunnie’ Huang, an American_who’s_best known_for hacking the Xbox, and_a partner_Sean “xobs” Cross, the laptop is built for and by hackers, developers and engineers, not merely for casual Web consumption. Now the laptop has been successfully funded on Crowd Supply, raising $701,870 from 1,015 pledges — nearly three times the targeted amount of $250,000. This is proof of the demand that exists among developers who want the freedom of doing hardware experiments. After all, open source software has already been widely adopted in...

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