Allan Mwenda <[email protected]> wrote: > HAHAHA,if only I could. That is a rather gloomy scenario though
My great-grandfathers did it successfully in 1917, and we can do it again. To bring this thread back on-topic, a fully-functional (i.e., unlike OsmocomBB) GSM cellphone whose baseband firmware is available to every end user in the form of full source code, compiled using gcc and other Free Software tools (no blobs or proprietary build tools), and physically reloadable into the phone, again using only Free Software tools running under a free OS (GNU/Linux or other Unix), is NOT an impossibility, and it is becoming closer to reality with each passing day. The work is being done in a public source repository: https://bitbucket.org/falconian/freecalypso-sw Look at the commit history, and see for yourself how steadily this project marches forward. As Che Guevara said, this movement is growing stronger with each passing day, it will never stop. All the talk about legalities is nothing more than a scarecrow. Does your country's police force employ psychics with extremely advanced extrasensory perception capabilities? If not, how are they going to divine that the ordinary-looking cellphone in your hand or your pocket or your purse lacks some needed regulatory approval if its actual radio signal emissions are identical to those from any other correctly functioning GSM cellphone? And how are they going to divine that a cellphone that physically looks just like any other (standard commercial quality plastics and all) contains firmware which some believe might infringe on some copyrights held by some ancient company which might not even exist any more? VLR, SF _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
