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FSF announces Librephone project (www.fsf.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37569557

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.

Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Whaaat? Drop the OG free Android distribution that has already supported hundreds of phone models across decades for a Google locked hardware with unknown future support from a vendor just announcing locking down everything they can? What is your logic?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Logic is simple: Actually have something 10 years from now.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    If google restricts access to its os, like they have already started, all you'll have is pixel up to 10/11 still supported 10 years from now. They've already started by no longer providing device trees in aosp for their phones, so graphene has to work harder to obtain them now. Whereas if you work on lineage, you potentially have a greater number of vendors and potentially new ones ready to open up to draw in new userbase.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Absolutely that's an issue. But we're not talking about that here. We are talking about a base os from where we can progress. I don't care much for Google phones, even though I must admit they are nice phones. Google can not un-opensource AOSP. They can, to a certain extend, stop open sourcing changes, but that's about it. Doesn't mean we need to follow their os. Also doesn't mean we can't, slowly but surely, develop Android to be more of a Sandbox ontop of a newer Linux kernel than it is right now. Utopian, I know, but if Google stops AOSP developmentz what would we rather do?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, I mean, both graphene and lineage are based on aosp. But graphene supports only one vendor. Lineageos supports many, including google. Why invest in a vendor-locked os and risk loosing it all? I think lineage is a lot more logical choice. And I'm currently running Graphene on a pixel 8, after pixel 7.

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