That would be AWESOME. You do realize that goes against EVERYTHING apple stands for as well, right?

That's just what I came here to say.
Device locking (due to theft) can be done at boot-time.

Have the hardware expose the means only to LOCK the phone, and you're done; no matter what OS, it can still be locked when lost (assuming the OS supports it), and can never be unlocked, since you can no longer install any OS, os even boot the existing one.

And, again, what can I install on it besides android?

I agree.
I've bought and sold several of used macbooks online. Each time, we met at a cafe, and the buyer had plenty of time to try it out, etc.
I can't think someone stupid enough to give me a fat chunk of cash without wanting to verify what I'm selling them.

The only people I see downloading this are sysadmins with access to servers/pcs/clusters with extra free space.
No home user is going to give up a full 2TB disc just for some usless data that MAY be useful some day.

I'm not sure how this works in Australia, but where I live, it's not ilegal for a seventeen year old to have sex with a sixteen year old. I'm pretty sure we're not the only country where this is legal.

The FBI (or USA, for that matter), always has jurisdiction, no matter where. Didn't you get the memo?

After getting some feedback on this usage of mine, and algo after seeing some other comments here, here are some hightlights:
  + IMAP takes care of the sincronization across devices.
  + There's a client for every device out there: the email client.
  + Achieving, deleting, marking as read/unread, flagging, all supported through IMAP as well.

Maybe rather than a web-based interface, this needs an email based interface (sort of like mailing lists).

No, it wasn't open source, sorry!
Someone could create a clone. I'm curious as to why that hasn't happened. Probably no interested developers.

I replaced it ages ago, with a simple python script croned every 15 minutes. It picks up new entries to my feeds, and emails them to me. Sieve filters those emails into a different mailbox, so I've a special mailbox which is basically entries for my rss feeds.

I don't know why I've never made a web interface for that, it might become pretty popular. :P

While he has no right to claim it his own, neither does the new maintainer, and the new maintainer is actually pretending to be the author of something he is not. That's illegal pretty much everywhere, even if you sign over all related rights.

If whomever hired him is the copyright owner, then the new maintanier should not place his own name on the work; it's not his intelectual property.

His best shot is contacting the person who hired him to do the job in the first place, and informing him of the situation.

And steam, which is offered in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

FYI, this isn't just specific to open source software, belive me, I pulled this off dozens of times developing closed software!

Lots of non-expensive-brand PCs have "FreeDOS" installed; that should count as free software, right?
What about those PCs that come with nothing preinstalled?