Twelve Years, One Bet on PowerPC: The Power Progress Community Story Originally published on May 12, 2026 at https://bruno.verachten.fr/2026/05/12/power-progress-community/ In 2014, a small group of Italian volunteers decided to build an open hardware PowerPC laptop from scratch. No salary. No investor deck. No deadline. Just a shared conviction that the world needed an open computer built on an open architecture, running free software, designed by and for the community. Twelve years later, they’re still at it. I recently spoke with Roberto Innocenti , president of the Power Progress Community , and the conversation stayed with me for days. Photo by Сергей on Pexels Who they are Power Progress Community is a non-profit registered in Italy. Every member is a volunteer. Nobody gets paid except the electronic engineers they hire for specific funded tasks. Roberto describes their "business plan" as deliberately flexible: no crowdfunding countdown clock, no tight time-to-market pressure.…