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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It sounds like they are basically doing the same thing Replicant does (they even mentioned Replicant), but based on LineageOS right now, and with enough resources to hire someone to work on reverse engineering the proprietary bits.
Not the most glamorous endeavor, but a cool and necessary project. Pretty pragmatic too, focusing on Android instead of mobile Linux.
Awesome!
Having said that, please start with an existing open source project so you won’t have to start from scratch and still be nowhere 10 years from now
Let’s see where this leads. They have not managed so far to get GNU/Hurd production ready in the 35 years it’s been in development.
HURD is not in development by FSF. It’s a side project by professor Samuel Thibault in his spare time.
Wiki at least says: “It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation”.
So someone should fix the wiki.
That’s amazing! Phone are, IMO, the toughest frontier of privacy and autonomy. Industries have us well locked in their ecosystems
They should support GrapheneOS rather than try and make something “more free” from LineageOS.
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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