Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-10-19 Thread ni nhar
 > problem that would be for Replicant a display that requires uploading a non-free blob. I did not know about that. Can you elaborate? I was told the pinephone can start on free software, though if you want the modem and the wifi to work then non free software is required. Else I would not have

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2019-10-17 Thread ni nhar
  > problem that would be for Replicant a display that requires uploading a non-free blob. I did not know about that. Can you elaborate? I was told the pinephone can start on free software, though if you want the modem and the wifi to work then non free software is required. Else I would not

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2019-10-17 Thread Joonas Kylmälä
Andrés Domínguez: > I also mentioned the non-free firmware for WIFI, but I tell him that the > display firmware would make a port of Replicant to it impossible. depends how simple the hardware is. We could write free firmware if there is no signature checking. Joonas

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-10-17 Thread Andrés Domínguez
El jue., 17 oct. 2019 a las 18:06, dllud () escribió: > Hi Andrés, > > Could you also let him know about the problem with the non-free firmware > for the WiFi chip? I also mentioned the non-free firmware for WIFI, but I tell him that the display firmware would make a port of Replicant to it

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-10-17 Thread dllud
Hi Andrés, Could you also let him know about the problem with the non-free firmware for the WiFi chip? Perhaps, on a later version of the phone, they can do something similar to what Purism did with the firmware for the RAM controller: load the firmware from a separate flash chip, which would not

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2019-10-17 Thread Andrés Domínguez
El jue., 17 oct. 2019 a las 17:34, ni nhar () escribió: > Has replicant gotten the pinephones? > I have been in contact with Lukasz. He said that the September batch had been already allocated, so that they could arrange for a unit to be shipped to us in either late October or November. I have

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2019-08-18 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:34:39 +0300 "ni nhar" wrote: I think that the pinephone should be one of our priorities, Phones that have free software bootloaders are a priority of the Replicant project. The decision the Replicant project took, and the funding we applied for do reflect that.

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-17 Thread ni nhar
> I think that the pinephone should be one of our priorities, I can take charge of it if nobody wants to. > Andrés In a new message pinephone has offered to ship 3 free pinephones to replicant and shipping for free. Pinephones should be availbale in Sep. I wrote andres how to email pinephone.

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-15 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:50:55 +0300 "ni nhar" wrote: > I am a layperson and I cannot argue with you. If you > say the approach is to complete replicant > 9 for current replicant devices and > then move it to pinephone, then I cannot > argue against that. It is more on an intuitive > level I would

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2019-08-15 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:09:29 +0300 "ni nhar" wrote: > Thanks. I suggest this plan. > I tell the pinephone chief, he can expect an email > from you. > > You email him. In the email you should ask > for a price. You should specify what you > intend to do with the phones. Such that he can > decide

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-15 Thread ni nhar
  > As GNUtoo pointed out, we must first finish > Replicant 9 and then we > could potential move on to device ports such as > Pinephone. I am a layperson and I cannot argue with you. If you say the approach is to complete replicant 9 for current replicant devices and then move it to pinephone,

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-15 Thread ni nhar
> I can take charge of it if nobody wants to. Can I write you his email address directly? Thanks. I suggest this plan. I tell the pinephone chief, he can expect an email from you. You email him. In the email you should ask for a price. You should specify what you intend to do with the phones.

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-14 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:25:53 +0300 Joonas Kylmälä wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not personally interested at this time (maybe in the future) but > maybe adtjm, dllud, GrimKriegor or GNUtoo are? I'll be very interested once we get Replicant 9 in a good enough state to consider adding support for devices

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-14 Thread Andrés Domínguez
Hi! I think that the pinephone should be one of our priorities, I can take charge of it if nobody wants to. Andrés El vie., 9 ago. 2019 a las 9:31, ni nhar () escribió: > After asking the ceo of pine64, the company which > manufactures the pinephone, some > questions in a pm on the pine64

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2019-08-14 Thread dllud
Hi ni nhar, Thanks for dropping by at the IRC channel and keeping up the effort to find a developer willing to take this task. Replicant's IRC channel was actually a good place to find someone. You should hang around there a bit longer. Like Joonas, and as previous detailed on this email

Re: [Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-14 Thread Joonas Kylmälä
Hi, I'm not personally interested at this time (maybe in the future) but maybe adtjm, dllud, GrimKriegor or GNUtoo are? Joonas ni nhar: >  After asking the ceo of pine64, the company which > manufactures the pinephone, some > questions in a pm on the pine64 forum, he answered me. > > He says,

[Replicant] pinephone chief wants to ship phones to a replicant manager denis please read this post

2019-08-09 Thread ni nhar
 After asking the ceo of pine64, the company which manufactures the pinephone, some questions in a pm on the pine64 forum, he answered me. He says, he wants to ship pinephones to a replicant manager. He did not tell which version of the pinephone, prices or anything else. He wants a replicant