How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software

Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by s_tec on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:52PM (#18876724)

This is supposed to be a phone Richard Stallman can use. A phone that doesn't betray your freedom is more valuable than a phone with a PDF viewer, at least according to some people.

At the same time, the whole point of free software is that you can hack on your own computer. If you need some missing feature, you can just port it over from Gnome. That can be either exciting or annoying, depending on whether you have a hacker mindset or a consumer mindset. They are banking on enough people having a hacker mindset.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by 8bitsrule on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:12PM (#18877608)

My fingers are so crossed on this one. I've never wanted a phone to be anything else. (Nor been willing to put up with proprietary extortion and anonymous blobs.) I have been waiting (seems like forever) for a phone-sized computer with an FSF-approved philosophy.

I'm sure I'm not alone. I rather imagine that (as with the early 8-bit era) such a device will be adopted quickly by thousands of us. It's just so ... BASIC. To hell with tollbridges.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by madez on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:03PM (#18880421)

You are not alone.

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