Explicitly not trying to control what you do makes up the majority of their business model.
Is there such a thing as a "DangerOS device", or are there devices that can or cannot run "DangerOS" (e.g., NetBSD plus proprietary software). The official slogan of the open source project is "Of course it runs NetBSD!" not "Of course it is a NetBSD device."
Anything said about an OS does not necessarily have anything to do with the device it runs on. Nor does anything said about a device necessarily have anything to do the OS being run on it. That's why we can have OS that run on a variety of devices (e.g., NetBSD, Linux, etc.), as well as devices on which we can boot a variety of OS (e.g., RPi, Pinephone).
Unfortunately this important distinction is carefully omitted from tech company marketing, ignored by sycophant tech bloggers, tech journalists and everyone who follows and subscribes to their brand of anti-competitive "innovation". Hopefully more hardware like RPi and Pinephone can change some people's thinking and allow them to see the possibilities that are constantly being suppressed in the "war on general purpose computing".
- a device with an extremely old battery
- without an open or available SDK
- with a pathetically slow CPU by modern standards
- with a pathetically small amount of RAM by modern standards
- with a mediocre keyboard under a screen with a nifty magnetic hinge mechanism but terrible specs (again, by modern standards)
- with, if I recall correctly, a very low speed GSM data connection
There's no reason to try to resurrect them.
Do you mean Pine64 has no intention of trying to control what people do with the device?
Did anyone ever try to "root" the Sidekick? Always interested to hear more about it.