Richard Stallman <[email protected]> a écrit: > We may need to organize construction of phones to use GNU/Linux on.
Indeed. There is that, and there is also the possibility to promote and nurture existing efforts to allow some of the existing (but somewhat outdated) hardware to be driven by GNU/Linux-centered software[1], like what Harald Welte has proposed lately on the OsmocomBB[2] mailing-list. In that particular case, the idea is basically to be able to issue and receive phone calls on classical Motorola C1x[3] hardware that can still be manufactured and sold. That hardware is definitely not "smart phone" like, but I guess that the knowledge, know how and working software derived from such a project would be useful to build upon later on. And even on the practical side, such a hardware, if driven well, has excellent battery autonomy and is relatively cheap. I would certainly buy and use such a device if I could be sure that it runs Free Software only. It would be nice if the FSF or other structures alike could raise funds to push this kind of efforts through. We need more positive and constructive happenings at the organizational level, on that front. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.osmocom.baseband.devel/1919 [2]: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/ [3]: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/MotorolaC123 -- Dodji
