> Great ideas, Akira! It would also be wonderful to see this idea of > supporting old hardware progress from supporting old laptops and old > desktops (where free software generally works well) to supporting old > phones without current vendor support (which are problematical to > continue to use with an unsupported vendor-supplied OS given security > issues, but it is hard to get a newer OS on most of them).
> So, maybe reducing e-waste could become an emphasis of the new FSF > Librephone project -- by focusing at first on supporting popular phones > from the last five-to-ten years which the original vendor no longer > suports with OS updates, and which otherwise might get disposed of after > replacement? Thank you for the suggestion. I agree with you. > In hindsight, a major tactical mistake for Mozilla's now-defunct phone > initiative with "Firefox OS" was thinking in terms of supporting *new* > hardware with a new free OS. I get the feeling that Mozilla Firefox is generally resource-consuming. Use of the Rust language, which is known to lead to larger binaries than c source code, is a likely cause. > Beyond Librephone supporting old phones as cell-radio-using *phones*, > that support could also perhaps include repurposing old phones (or old > tablets) in various creative ways. ... An exhibition in which examples of the clever new uses for old devices would be interesting. Akira Urushibata _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
