I am not an expert, but... We have an urge to follow the off-the-shelf shiny products. Replicant aims to free those shiny products at relevant levels.
I think I saw some completely-free projects or related proposals. However, if industry do not follow you, and probably they won't as they are like titanic near a row-boat when compared to other communities, then it will not be common. I recall an initiative by Debian community, about raising funds for a tablet to be designed openly and manufactured in China, and running Debian. However, I do not think they managed (or at the level they aimed.) Furthermore, GSM operators probably will not like the idea of free baseband firmware. For further information and other communities, http://bit.ly/1lAJNxz Regards. Umut. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, dimonik, dimonik <dimo...@letiko.com> wrote: > Thus, currently we have a lot of weak points: > > 1) Boot loader > 2) Baseband processor > 3) BLOB drivers > > all this remains out of our control on every device we use! > > Than, let me ask - wouldn't it be better to design a NEW system from > scratch instead of spending years on reverse-engineering of what > manufacturers are selling? > > There are a cool stuff to work with, like DE2-115 development board, with > which one may design & debug some OpenRISC system + some existing OS. > > And there is no real need in BIG SW like Linux, look at Oberon Project ( > http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html) - it is > well designed, has a lot of features and very minimal & compact. > > Personally i chose not to spend time on reverse stuff. Concentrated all my > power on research for new design. > > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > Replicant@lists.osuosl.org > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant > >
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