Category:Open Source Hardware Manufacturers

Open source hardware might not be entirely open source either due to reliance on non open source products. For instance, ZeroPhone and some products of mutantCybernetics are open source yet are extensions of non open source hardware.

About

This page lists manufacturers that provide at least one open source hardware product.

This page also gathers references to companies and projects in order to ease on finding of further information on this matter, either commercial or personal matter.

Business

This page also attempts to review possibilities for commercial manufacturing of open source hardware.

Current

An initial review of the current active manufacturers, it appears that Germany is the best place to engage and elaborate on this business.

Potential

Another option, is to refer to Chinese based companies, one of which might be T2Mobile which albeit made only a single device in its entire history, it was the first device in history to run the Firefox OS.

RISC V

Due to the specifications of the RISC V processor being open to the public, more people refer to RISC V technology in order to enable commercial opportunities for open source hardware.