Do you know a device with a free GSM stack? We'd be glad to help promote that device. To my knowledge there is no such stack or device at the moment, including the OpenMoko.
What if there is no device with a free GSM stack? Will the FSF Europe promote such a device despite it being wrong? But the area of GNU/Linux distributions is much more mature in terms of freedom than that of mobile phones and PDAs. The whole area of PDAs, mobile phones and similar is one that is still very much dominated by proprietary software. There is not a single device that could be recommended without warning. Then the only right thing to do is to not recommend any device, just like one couldn't recommend any GNU/Linux specific system until UTUTO-e came about (and closely following other 100% free GNU/Linux poped up). The way the Free Software community addressed similar issues in the past is to get and (within legal limits) study what you want to replace, and replace the non-free components one by one. That is how the GNU Project got started, it was a major motivation to establish Debian, and other examples exist in other areas. When the GNU project was started, there was no free software; one had no choice other than non-free sofyware. Today we have all the tools needed to reject all non-free software. Debian is also a bad example, since they distribute non-free software despite there being free replacements (Java for example); there are other problems as well with Debian, the whole non-free section being one such a problem. We need to build a stronger presence of the Free Software community in this area. And this is by distributing devices that contain `almost entirely Free Software'? Cheers. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
