The aim is not to create a mobile phone that mimics a PC. The OpenMoko phone is a “totally open system.” Engineers can rewrite the rules and have access to all the building blocks. But he can’t sell it in the US because the cellular carriers “whitelist” phone IDs, so they only support the ones they want.

An audience member says that Part 68 means the FCC says that any device not detrimental to the public has to be allowed to connect.

There’s much discussion among many learned people using acronyms I never heard of. [Tags: f2c openmoko telephony open_source ]

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