On 30 June 2015 1:44:24 AM AEST, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS >- >> or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the >> bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary). >> > >No, actually my problem is that why an operating system >can have decision on what types of apps can I have on my computer. >if it is foss enough why I am not able to remove everything from my >system >easily. >I believe when we have free operating system, when can aim for free >hardware. >I just hope ubuntu would be a help to open the mobile market like the >way >it helped in desktop.
I think that part of the problem is the diversity of hardware in the ARM ecosystem and that much of the drivers needed are not maintained in future kernels, making it difficult to support at a community level. > >FOSS developers seem to mostly be stuck in X11-land - it scratches >> their itch which tends to be on the desktop. While touch screen is >> "just another input device" the fact is that you need to design your >> entire application UI around it. ... > > >why do you thinks some foss user interfaces can not be created for this >situation? > >I just hope someday mobile market whould be open. Have you seen the Neo900? Its based on the old Nokia N900 and the maemo software. The OS is a debian variant, I believe. http://neo900.org/ -- :b
