That is a very optimistic video…
Sure the FSF can try to reverse-engineer some firmware, but this isn’t going to make a “Libre Phone”, nor is further depending on Android, like they seem to plan, a good idea.
There are projects like PostmarketOS that are more serious about this and maybe the FSF will realize that they are better off collaborating with PmOS, but this tone-deaf and seemingly quite ignorant announcement of theirs doesn’t make me very optimistic.
Was there an actual announcement? I only saw the one off line about “we want to make an fsf phone!”
Thats a real shame (and kind of a dealbreaker) if they are continuing on the android route.
Edit:
Oh. Thats… Something.
https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html
This is a project to research proprietary files in Android to work towards a long-term goal of free replacements.
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Are you developing a free mobile phone OS?
NO. There are many projects working in mobile phones, and many of them are largely free software. The FSF doesn’t see the need to join these projects, but wants to build upon them and improve on their current state of freedom. While there are many proprietary libraries and other files in Android,this project is focused on binary blobs.
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Are you developing hardware?
NO. We are working on freeing up software, we are not hardware developers.
So… Yeah.
