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I'm actually hoping they get more draconian. Before when people tried to make FOSS smartphone software/hardware it lost momentum, because 1) it's hard and 2) pe

I'm actually hoping they get more draconian. Before when people tried to make FOSS smartphone software/hardware it lost momentum, because 1) it's hard and 2) people could just use Google's stuff for free. My hope is that by them becoming more Apple/Microsoft-esque, they push people to make better alternatives. But it's really hard to get people unhooked from "free".

larkeith 9y ago
It's certainly not a huge market slice relative to Google, but Purism raised 2.5m for the FOSS Librem 5 [1], so there's still some momentum there. [1] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/