And the FSF wants to piggyback on Android. Screw that. Every FOSS org should be lining up behind Linux for phones. I don’t care if we don’t get popular apps, freedom comes first.
They were talking about cracking the hardware LineageOS has to use, what’s wrong with that? Linux phones use all kinds of hacky workarounds. Until open source hardware really takes off, the goal is to make stuff work on these malicious devices.
And the FSF wants to piggyback on Android. Screw that. Every FOSS org should be lining up behind Linux for phones. I don’t care if we don’t get popular apps, freedom comes first.
They were talking about cracking the hardware LineageOS has to use, what’s wrong with that? Linux phones use all kinds of hacky workarounds. Until open source hardware really takes off, the goal is to make stuff work on these malicious devices.
Why not both? Android is open source, an organization can hardfork it if there is demand for it.
This is frankly a bad take
Creating an ecosystem from the ground up is a huge undertaking that many people have failed to do in the past.
Why waste developer time when you can start with a solid base