I'm sure if B2G and Ubuntu Touch really kickoff Mozilla and Canonical will want to work more and more with companies that don't use much proprietary hardware, potentially leading eventually to a cellphone completely absent of proprietary hardware. This may be highly unlikely (B2G doesn't look like it will get too much real support, and who knows when/if we'll see a truly stable release of Touch) but I don't think a fully free cellphone is too unthinkable. Has anyone thought of porting to mini arm PCs like the Pi, or has this already been done; I know there are some built specifically for Android (CuBox, Pandaboard, etc.). I like the idea of Replicant in the tablet world (If you can roughly consider Replicant/Android on mini PCs akin to tablets).
[email protected] wrote: >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 _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
