As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that
all of the candidate devices mentioned had some kind of
limitations due to the hardware involved. None of them
could become totally Libre.
Would it be possible to construct, from component parts,
a 100% Libre phone that could work reliably
Joel Kahn asked:
Would it be possible to construct ... a 100% Libre phone
Using the FSF's certification criteria [0], which is what we should
strive for, no. The blocker appears to be the GSM radio. There is a
project OsmocomBB [1] to develop free software for that though.
Beyond that, it does
I hate to break it to you guys, but considering we don't even have a
100% free *computer* yet, we're still a far way away from being able to
say a phone is completely free. In fact, I'll go ahead and claim that
it's impossible to achieve simply based upon the fact that nobody has
done it yet. I'd
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Joel Kahn jj2...@yahoo.com writes:
As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that
all of the candidate devices mentioned had some kind of
limitations due to the hardware involved. None of them
could become totally Libre.
maybe the neo freerunner? i'm not sure if the hardware is
Getting rid of a java based phone would be nice, lets say the default lang
is python or ruby? I suppose I should throw in erlang too as its related to
telecoms.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Joel Kahn jj2...@yahoo.com wrote:
As I looked over the Replicant project, I noticed that
all of the
This may sort of connect to the PRISM issues
What sites are good sources of info on Libre
OSes for mobile phones/platforms? I've taken
a look at Replicant, but I'd like to know
what else is being worked on.
Joel
