> Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980.
I found very little info about it online. There is this github org:
I briefly looked but either I'm blind or it doesn't exist - is there a video of the event anywhere? I'd love to watch the talks.
Side note - if FSF wants its message to reach a wider audience and get more people to care about free software it should really get out of its own bubble. Why wasn't this streamed and archived on YouTube? Yes, this is a rhetoric question - I know perfectly why. My point here is - and let me make a colorful analogy:
If you're, say, a Scientology missionary, what the hell is the point of preaching inside of your own church, to people who are already Scientologists? If you want to be an effective missionary you go out where the non-believers are, and you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago, or else they'll immediately dismiss you and think you're batshit crazy. You ease them in step-by-step.
FSF puts ideological purity as an absolute number one (e.g. recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is pretty much unusable on most machines for normal people), and they refuse to spread the message on platforms where non-free-software people are (e.g. YouTube), and then we're all surprised that the free software movement is dying, and non-copyleft licenses are dominating (although, yes, there are other reasons for that too).
They could as easily put the video on some of the OSS solutions as that. Or they could self host. They do not value effective advocacy for their ideas.
I do not see the FSF as an effective organization today.
> you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago
What is fsf’s equivalent of Xenu that they shouldn’t tell you about up front? I want to say you should need to be at least level 3 at fsf before learning about rms.
The lack of any chipset that would have tolerable information for producing those or any lifetime or willingness to deal with someone smaller than a Sony or LG. But yeah, drivers is close to where that ends up breaking.
The new project is LibrePhone:
> Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980.
I found very little info about it online. There is this github org:
https://github.com/LibrePhone
which mirrors PostMarketOS: https://github.com/LibrePhone/pmOS, 'The Linux distribution for mobile devices and beyond…'
I found very little info about it online. There is this github org:
Probably not related, it's unlikely that the FSF would host anything on GitHub.
What happened to the last attempt?
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/free-phone
I briefly looked but either I'm blind or it doesn't exist - is there a video of the event anywhere? I'd love to watch the talks.
Side note - if FSF wants its message to reach a wider audience and get more people to care about free software it should really get out of its own bubble. Why wasn't this streamed and archived on YouTube? Yes, this is a rhetoric question - I know perfectly why. My point here is - and let me make a colorful analogy:
If you're, say, a Scientology missionary, what the hell is the point of preaching inside of your own church, to people who are already Scientologists? If you want to be an effective missionary you go out where the non-believers are, and you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago, or else they'll immediately dismiss you and think you're batshit crazy. You ease them in step-by-step.
FSF puts ideological purity as an absolute number one (e.g. recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is pretty much unusable on most machines for normal people), and they refuse to spread the message on platforms where non-free-software people are (e.g. YouTube), and then we're all surprised that the free software movement is dying, and non-copyleft licenses are dominating (although, yes, there are other reasons for that too).
Just be grateful South Park hasn't done an episode about the FSF and RMS (yet)!
They could as easily put the video on some of the OSS solutions as that. Or they could self host. They do not value effective advocacy for their ideas.
I do not see the FSF as an effective organization today.
> you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago
What is fsf’s equivalent of Xenu that they shouldn’t tell you about up front? I want to say you should need to be at least level 3 at fsf before learning about rms.
Isn't the main problem with phones the lack of real "free software" drivers and firmware? Are they finally going to wrangle that one?
The lack of any chipset that would have tolerable information for producing those or any lifetime or willingness to deal with someone smaller than a Sony or LG. But yeah, drivers is close to where that ends up breaking.
... and yet Richard Stallman is mentioned once, in passing.
It's a damn shame how the FSF seemingly yielded to the attempts to slander and cancel him and still appears to be tip-toeing on the subject,