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- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
- technology@lemmy.ml
- opensource@lemmy.ml
- foss@beehaw.org
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.
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.