Hi all! On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 20:43 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > Le mardi 30 septembre 2014 à 10:49 +0300, dimonik, dimonik a écrit : > > nice article: > > http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ > > I am indeed worried to see the free software applications in AOSP being > discarded by Google as they develop their proprietary enhanced and > tied-to-their-services versions of these core system applications.
While I highly appreciate what you Paul are doing (are you the only active Replicant developer at the time?), after reading the article on Ars Technica I am wondering if the free software community, and in this particular case the part of it focused on mobile platforms, should be taking a different approach (though I have no clue what that would be). The Replicant project has been around for several years, and my question is - how much has the project been beneficial for the wide mobile platform community users? Don't get me wrong - I am fully supportive of the Replicant project, it's just that I'm wondering how much it has picked up people's imagination and willingness to give it a try, fiddle with it, patch it, extend it, or maybe even use it on a daily basis. The problem is that "the other side" has armies of dozens of thousands of payed developers and we got one single developer (or maybe a few). Given the complexity of creating a fully free complete software stack for a mobile platform and the fast pace things are changing in the field, I was thinking if there's another approach that would get us to the same goal and how it'd compare to the current state of affairs. -- Regards, Marko http://dimjasevic.net/marko _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@lists.osuosl.org http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
