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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Not a good choice for a name, at first I though it was just another linux phone that would be useless for 90% of people.
Very cool project instead, hope this can lead the fondation for a 100% open source mobile OS.
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And thank god it isn’t
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There’s a happy medium imo. Linux is enjoying a bit of a golden age at the moment because so many people are doing brilliant work making it usable and nice. But if the userbase becomes too large, tech companies will see their bottom lines affected, and it’ll be enshittified like everything else. And it’ll become a more attractive target for malware, of course.
Honest to God, I thought a “Librephone” was something that already existed. I think I was thinking of the PinePhone or smth.
Librem 5 is what you’re thinking of
You’re probably right
For Fuck Sake its Free Software Foundation.
I think this intiative is spot on. I would describe current approach of 2 major OS vendors, Google and Microsoft as such:
Microsoft demands standardization at firmware level via UEFI, ACPI etc. because they bring OS kernel and userspace.
Google demands Linux API version and brings just userspace.
In theory Google approach better facilitates open ecosystem but each OEM treats Linux kernel as just a firmware blob so the end situation is actually worse.
On the PC we have standardized firmware while Android chases Linux API levels each release and thus undermines the whole ecosystem.
I’m trying to fund these projects. It might not be much, but but a little bit now and then might make a difference.
As long it is not liberated hardware from blobs it all is useless.
If you don’t want to have any freedom until you have it all, you’ll be slave forever.
You’re letting perfect get in the way of good enough.
Good for now *
A dedicated community has been created for this, see https://lemmy.ml/c/librephone (I just saw this community and joined myself)
