FSF announces Librephone project — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. “Librephone” is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.

Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    I’m trying to fund these projects. It might not be much, but but a little bit now and then might make a difference.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know as much about phones as I do with computers but would I still be able to contribute in any way?

  • ☭RedArab🇵🇸@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    This is amazing news!

    I’m glad the fsf is actually taking it upon itself to create more solutions especially since it has become increasingly irrelevant throughout these years and sadly been replaced by the corporate “open source” hellscape.

    We need free software, not “open source” corporate bullshit. Open source was invented in the first place as a way to get people from being radicalized by the free software movement, since it would take money out of their filthy, greedy pockets.

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    So they could do it for pixels and this open source firmware could be used by Graphene OS, for example?

    • TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      The issue is that for the FSF, what they call “software freedom” is their number one goal. So what’s likely to happen is that they create some kind of “deblobbed” firmware that breaks many features and security of the device, which Graphene OS will refuse to use.

      I hope this project will be useful but am worried that they’ll just make a shittier version of someone else’s work like they did with e.g. Libreboot.