Has anyone tried to approach the Shenzhen companies doing quality knockoffs of iPhones and Galaxies about doing a FOSS phone with OpenMoko features? I mean, they clearly can build one. Question is whether they would for a reasonable amount of money.
The problem is these would be gonkai phones (see link). Within the western legal framework of "intellectual property" you can't open source what you don't own. The impedance miss-match between the two working methodologies makes any conversion a lot of work, e.g. the Fernvale effort to make a open hardware _dumb_ phone platform: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297