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Consumer electronics firm Framework will expand its operations to three more countries in June, offering its customisable laptops in Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.

Consumer electronics company Framework says it has raised US$17 million (A$26.2 million) in a Series A-1 funding round, and will allow up to 100 community members to invest US$10,000 each in the company.