▲ 670 ▼ We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch (www.extremetech.com) submitted 6 months ago by viov@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml 113 comments fedilink hide all child comments Its always good to try!
[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 21 points 6 months ago (3 children) Isn't /e/os (murena) a seperate company from fairphone? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (2 children) Yes, and I don't know if it could even be classed as a collaboration. They just buy them and resell them with different firmware, basically? I assume some part of acceptance is required for that in practice, but it isn't like Fairphone ever advertised them as an official option (as far as I can tell or saw). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dabu@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago Well, Fairphone sells phones with e/OS preinstalled on their website so at the very least they like each other permalink fedilink source parent [–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (2 children) Yes, and I don't know if it could even be classed as a collaboration. They just buy them and resell them with different firmware, basically? I assume some part of acceptance is required for that in practice, but it isn't like Fairphone ever advertised them as an official option (as far as I can tell or saw). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dabu@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago Well, Fairphone sells phones with e/OS preinstalled on their website so at the very least they like each other permalink fedilink source parent [–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dabu@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago Well, Fairphone sells phones with e/OS preinstalled on their website so at the very least they like each other permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS? permalink fedilink source parent