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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)

submitted 1 month ago by tal@olio.cafe to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

And it seems like the goal isn’t to start from scratch, but to take an existing operating system like Android and reverse engineer all the proprietary components until it’s capable of running on smartphones and other mobile devices without relying on any proprietary drivers.

This is going to stall out like all the previous attempts. At best the phone will half work and then rapidly become completely outdated.