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Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

linuxiac.com Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

The FSF celebrates four decades of software freedom with a new president and the LibrePhone initiative for privacy-focused mobile computing.

The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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Why would anyone think that FSF is capable of releasing a unique and good device? It's gonna be a bog-standard Android device with some software modified/removed.
Might be ok for some people still though. Also I'll be happy to be wrong about my cynicism.
- It’s gonna be a bog-standard Android device with some software modified/removed.
  Really? That would be heavily antithetical to everything they do. I expect it would be a Linux distro (like PostmarketOS) with some blobs removed etc.
- Because as much as they're ridiculed today by libcucks of OSS, FSF was a formidable force of software once. At some point in history literally the only way to avoid paying absolutely insane manufacturer license fees for things like compilers was using GNU tools.
  If they put their ass into it, they can pull it off tbh

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