Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

>If details about the processor and the hardware are known, what's to
>stop an alternative open-source firmware from being created from
>scratch?
>
>Granted, it would be a lot of work...

nothing at all. but as you say, fixing the existing OS would
presumably be several orders of magnitude less effort.

hardware details are easily determined by buying a unit :-)