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Do fsf make any impact on everyday computer users? Take mobiles and tablets, all I see is walled gardens created by large businesses. The longer you use a devi
by bobsy 14y ago
Do fsf make any impact on everyday computer users?
Take mobiles and tablets, all I see is walled gardens created by large businesses. The longer you use a device the more you invest into it and the more locked in you become.
I would have thought this would be an area which fsf could make a difference in. Instead of a solution I get the impression that fsf would just support a gnu mobile os which would do nothing but create another silo for locked in content and purchases.
- chris_j 14y agoCould you expand a little on what sort of impact you would like to see the FSF make in this area?
- gburnett 14y agoIn what sense would it be 'locked in'?
- zanny 14y agoUbuntu Phone is going to be running on top of glibc and the regular GNU coreutils. You can also stick Plasma Active from KDE on top of most phone hardware, given driver support, and get another mobile OS running on top of GNU. The FSF isn't supposed to be an OS company. They are a foundation for free software. They wanted to make a POSIX compliant free *nix, and did. Their stuff also happens to work with Linux by design. You can take it or leave it, but they aren't a commercial entity to push consumer adoption.
- billsix 14y agoCyanogenmod and f-droid
- holri 14y agoFor example: http://freeyourandroid.org http://freeyourandroid.org is a FSFE campaign.