Finally someone mentioned this way way down in the comments. Its sad that such a great project has so easily been forgotten. The remains of the project are still very interesting but there aren't enough people to even finance a production run of the new hardware.
www.gta04.org

The Fairphone is about fairness in the supply chain, not openness or end-user control of the device, for that we have the much smaller OpenPhoenux project: /http://www.openphoenux.org/

The old OpenMoko Neo Freerunner did this, the price point is a bit high but you're asking for a very special feature with low demand in the general market, so supply and demand kick in.

There's a new version with better hardware that just hasn't gone into production because it can't get enough pre-orders to finance a production run. Check it out:
http://www.openphoenux.org/ (Click the GTA04 link for more info)

Gentoo is still _my_ linux, not Cannonical's or Red Hat's or whoever. It takes a bit of work sometimes, but that's what makes it mine. No one-size-fits-all approach will ever be right.

My Gentoos:
AMD64 laptop
DreamPlug plug computer, 1.2GHz ARM v5
Old AMD x86 desktop
AMD64 VM at work
Virtualized AMD64 SVN server at work

This one is particularly bad because there is no "obscure and buried opt-out option" to check. The process to opt-out requires you to mail a physical signed letter to some office. I'm pretty sure none of these terms are actually legal and enforceable, particularly in California where the courts have already struck down binding arbitration clauses before, but it's a deterrent to actual justice being served. My wish would be that the "Severability" clause was found illegal, so if the corporation decided to put something illegal in the contract, it voids the whole contract. That would be the only way to get the corporations to stop doing these things.