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On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Wolfgang Romey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ goood.... but are they providing the full source code? if not, they're actually operating as a *Criminal Cartel* - as an Organised Crime Syndicate! and it's illegal to fund organised crime. this is not a joke. >> >> .... 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? there's several that indirectly reduce e-waste, they're listed on the phonebloks.com web site. irony is that there's no common standard between any of them to share components.... whoops... > 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/ hooray! >> >> > - 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, i'm dealing with that by picking LCDs that are so hugely mass-produced (and also not using MIPI) that they *have* to be "open". > 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. *sigh* i wish i had their marketing expertise though. >> 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. working on it. slowly. one thing at a time. > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
