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.

  • fluxx@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If google restricts access to its os, like they have already started, all you’ll have is pixel up to 10/11 still supported 10 years from now. They’ve already started by no longer providing device trees in aosp for their phones, so graphene has to work harder to obtain them now. Whereas if you work on lineage, you potentially have a greater number of vendors and potentially new ones ready to open up to draw in new userbase.

    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      Absolutely that’s an issue. But we’re not talking about that here. We are talking about a base os from where we can progress. I don’t care much for Google phones, even though I must admit they are nice phones. Google can not un-opensource AOSP. They can, to a certain extend, stop open sourcing changes, but that’s about it. Doesn’t mean we need to follow their os. Also doesn’t mean we can’t, slowly but surely, develop Android to be more of a Sandbox ontop of a newer Linux kernel than it is right now. Utopian, I know, but if Google stops AOSP developmentz what would we rather do?

      • fluxx@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        No, I mean, both graphene and lineage are based on aosp. But graphene supports only one vendor. Lineageos supports many, including google. Why invest in a vendor-locked os and risk loosing it all? I think lineage is a lot more logical choice. And I’m currently running Graphene on a pixel 8, after pixel 7.

        • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          5 hours ago

          Yes, but we were not talking about platform support here. FSF is free to port device support from Lineage do Graphene. There is noone stopping them.