Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2016, 22:20:17 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > > it's not harsh - it's realistic. the evidence comes from their own > forums, with people asking them for security updates... which they > *COULDN'T PROVIDE* because they had based the Fairphone 1 around an > "abandonware" Mediatek GPL-violating processor. Of course, they made that mistake, but now they are delivering security- updates for the fairphone I.
https://www.fairphone.com/2016/06/30/fairphone-1-upgrade-to-android-kitkat-4-4-coming-soon/ > > .... all they had to do was ask people in the software libre > community, "what's the best processor and design strategy to use which > will help us fufill the ethical sustainable considerations that we > hold dear".... they didn't do that... end-result: landfill. Yes. But they do care about landfill: https://www.fairphone.com/2016/07/14/closing-the-loop-the-garbage-collectors-of-the-mobile-industry/ Is there any other smartphone producer, which is doing that too? This is another example: https://www.fairphone.com/2016/04/22/from-the-factory-to-you-packaging-the-fairphone-2/ > > why are _they_ offering it? why are they not providing full source > so that people can do the updates themselves? > You are of course right, but they learned for the Fairphone II: https://www.fairphone.com/2016/04/28/releasing-the-fairphone-2-open-operating-system/ > > > - they got 10 points on ifixit for the easy way to repair it and their > > modular construction. > > > > - the are using more conflict free minerals and there are better working > > conditions in as with the great players. > > fantastic. except they're not big enough to deal with the cartels in > the LCD manufacturing in order to ensure that conflict-free minerals > and manufacturing techniques are used there. it's a start though... > You too are not big enough to deal with the cartells, But as far as I understand it, there is nut much need to deal with them at this point. But, if you wanted to be shure, that the EOMA68-Card only used conflict free materials and was produced under acceptable conditions, which is an ethical aspect too, you you would have to go a long way. I think, Fairphone did not choose the right starting point. Your's seems to me a lot better. > http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/hybrid_phone/ lot happening in > a very short amount of time. this proposed phone design has a > hardware kill-switch on the modem. cuts the power entirely. It would be great, if this could be come to life too. Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: [email protected] Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.
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