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The Fairphone company's primary focus is on fair hardware: supply-chain ethical materials sourcing & fair factory wages. Software "fairness" is very much a seco

The Fairphone company's primary focus is on fair hardware: supply-chain ethical materials sourcing & fair factory wages. Software "fairness" is very much a secondary focus, so while they're open to de-Googling it's not something they actively support or commit resources to. e.g. The warranty is temporarily invalidated by installing a de-Googled OS but can be "restored" by re-installing Android. They do however partner witht another company - Murena - to offer deGoogled phones[0]. They have a full breakdown of it here[1] [0] https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-5-fr/ https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairpho... [1] https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9979154556817 https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/997915455681...

NewJazz 3y ago
while they're open to de-Googling it's not something they actively support or commit resources to I am not sure if this is entirely accurate. I agree that degoogled software is not their primary focus, but one Fairphone employee, Luca Weiss, has been pretty active in the postmarketOS community. For example, he submitted the initial port of pmOS to the FP5: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4359 https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/43... Perhaps that was in his "off time", but just as likely is that Fairphone the company is carving out some resources to porting efforts like that.
- lucideer 3y ago
  > one Fairphone employee > Perhaps that was in his "off time" I was more talking about the company's primary focus - they may well have (limited) resources working to it (whether it's off time or dedicated), but it's certainly not one of their top priorities. That said: even the facts that they have (a) multiple pages on their website documenting deGoogling & maintained a list of working alternative OS versions & (b) an active partnership with a 3rd-party offering this service - these indicate that this is at least a priority for the company, just not a top priority.

NewJazz 3y ago

while they're open to de-Googling it's not something they actively support or commit resources to I am not sure if this is entirely accurate. I agree that degoogled software is not their primary focus, but one Fairphone employee, Luca Weiss, has been pretty active in the postmarketOS community. For example, he submitted the initial port of pmOS to the FP5: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4359 https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/43... Perhaps that was in his "off time", but just as likely is that Fairphone the company is carving out some resources to porting efforts like that.

lucideer 3y ago
> one Fairphone employee > Perhaps that was in his "off time" I was more talking about the company's primary focus - they may well have (limited) resources working to it (whether it's off time or dedicated), but it's certainly not one of their top priorities. That said: even the facts that they have (a) multiple pages on their website documenting deGoogling & maintained a list of working alternative OS versions & (b) an active partnership with a 3rd-party offering this service - these indicate that this is at least a priority for the company, just not a top priority.