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FSF announces Librephone project (www.fsf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

from their article it seems like they're planning to reverse engineer firmware blobs for a phone that already runs a mostly free android distro (LineageOS). I know the importance of free firmware and stuff, but honestly, that phone is freer than most phones in the market. My opinion is that they should invest(?) in non-Android linux mobile OSes instead.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I think it makes sense to choose a phone that's freer than most phones as a start, then fill up the gaps to make it fully free. As things are all phones have blobs (even non-Android ones).

    I expect non-Android linux mobile OSes can also benefit from the reverse engineered firmware.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I get what you mean, but may be this is a start. I guess, this work can help them understand phone architecture better and the community can build upon their work to improve non-Android Linux mobile distros. However, I think this will help projects like replicant, droidian and grapheneos.

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