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Librephone aims to close the last gaps between existing distributions of the Android operating system and software freedom. The FSF has hired experienced developer Rob Savoye (DejaGNU, Gnash, OpenStreetMap, and more) to lead the technical project. He is currently investigating the state of device firmware and binary blobs in other mobile phone freedom projects, prioritizing the free software work done by the not entirely free software mobile phone operating system LineageOS.
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This makes me happy!
With LineageOS and microG in place a lot of work is already done in terms of having a free and open Android compatible mobile OS.
The FSF is now tackling the difficult part with firmware binaries that seems to stop a lot of phones from being supported.
This will take time, but as long as progress is made this will be awesome in the long run.
please please work I’d hate to see Google be content in controlling the ecosystem
I wish I could have more hope that Android will ever decouple itself enough from Google to be useful/practical as free software. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll end up going the other way, and freedom-respecting Android ROMs will likely be niche and only supported on a narrow range of hardware.
I imagine the Linux phone has better long-term potential, as it’s not tied to a proprietary ecosystem.
The only slim hope was that anti-trust case, but it was ruled that Google is allowed to keep Android so it’s probably just going to deteriorate further.
