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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I hope the need to stave off enshittification hits a high note such that more and more initiatives to make an alternative yourself becomes more common. We need more options in this tech space. Fix the mistakes that big tech thinks are its biggest asset.
I’m all for new tech that works for you as you want to than you having to continue living with things you don’t know even like.
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Interesting… would it theoretically be possible for it to run Graphene??? I know that the latter are looking for other oems atm
I would highly doubt it. These devices are likely going to be Linux based and not necessarily focused on the absolute best privacy and security GOS offers.
I could be wrong but that’s what I think based on what I know thus far.
It’s a confusing announcement. I don’t believe they are building a phone at all. What I think they are doing is reverse-engineering proprietary firmware blobs used by mobile phone hardware and then releasing their new firmware as open source.
So basically it is a lot more similar to something like Libreboot than something like a Pinephone.
GrapheneOS could theoretically take advantage of LibrePhone’s work on their existing hardware if LibrePhone supports the Pixels, but I’m guessing GrapheneOS will not want to do that.
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This is just another form of what they supported via the extraordinarily insecure and non-private Replicant project. That’s dead so they’re redoing the same thing. The approach does not work. All they’ll end up with is mostly not working support for certain old devices that’s far behind on basic open source updates and cannot ship firmware updates. It can’t be usable, private or secure. It’s not an effort to make an open hardware / open firmware device at all.
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