> people that think that laptops made by Purism are > fully free software which isn't the case.
purism is not an adequate example. I believe purism intentionally have misinformed people in order to have them think their products run on free software. > If people also think that > Ubuntu, Mint or other similar GNU/Linux distributions are fully free, > then we have some big issue. If you look at ubuntu.com do you see big letter warnings saying, if you install ubuntu on your computer then you will install non free software? It does not say nowhere. It is understandable if people do not get aware that if they install ubuntu then they install non free software. > fully free or not > get blurred Not if you call the non free software version of replicant for repnonfree and it gets its own website, repnonfree.com, and its website has no connection to replicant.us. On repnonfree.com it should warn, repnonfree contains non free software. And the website should list what pieces of non free software a given repnonfree phone contains. The website should tell people that repnonfree is a derivative of replicant. Tell people what are the implications of running repnonfree instead of replicant on a phone. > The other issue is that to get something fully free you often need to > have intermediate steps where you free hardware step by step. About repnonfree you do not want fully free. You want a derivative of replicant which can get installed on phones sold today. You prioritize new phones over free software. I do not know how many replicant phones there are. I assume it is a small number. There are a number of people, I do not know how many, who have informed themselves to a level such that they resent ios and android because they think it probably surveils them in an unacceptable manner. But they are not prepared to get a used phone in order to do something about it. For them repnonfree could be an option. I understand the replicant programmers who say, I am not going to make anything non free. But if some of you do not object providing a repnonfree version, then we should select a phone, estimate what it would cost to make the software and start a crowd funding for a repnonfree version. _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
