It's valid to question the hardware. Open-source improves the featureset and efficiency of the code as well as its security. Closed-source is simply an invitation to the vendors to provide low-quality code.

Let's not forget it was a little matter concerning a closed-source (printer) device driver, over at MIT, that kicked this whole open-source thing off (if I read Steven Levy correctly).

Let's also recall that some nasty rumours have circulated concerning a certain large photocopier company, who allegedly bugged their copiers to provide the CIA with their own copy of all copies made by those copiers ...

Must be time to break out the disassembler.



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