We see Project Pegasus, we must have Open Source Smartphones: let’s discuss
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#2Let’s start to discuss where we stand with open source smartphones, both in terms of software and hardware. Really worried about privacy and human rights. We cannot trust Apple and Google on this..
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#3As I understand, the GSM and Bluetooth modules are closed source because patents etc? We would need open hardware for the entire phone, then the software will come.
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#4Let’s start to discuss where we stand with open source smartphones, both in terms of software and hardware. Really worried about privacy and human rights. We cannot trust Apple and Google on this..
The current state is not great; I keep trying out the distros for my pinephone but everything is pretty much still unusable. Apps crash a lot, including the window manager and there are a very large amount of bugs.
The hardware seems fine, but, as said above, it seems that critical hardware (and software for that hardware) is closed.
What is great is: replaceable battery and dipswitches to physically turn on and off every module in the phone.
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#5Let’s start to discuss where we stand with open source smartphones, both in terms of software and hardware. Really worried about privacy and human rights. We cannot trust Apple and Google on this..
So you don't trust large US tech companies. Fair.
But why do you expect people can trust a group of anonymous developers building open source smartphones?
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#6That sounds great, but given the tribal nature of open source and disparity of development effort i will hold my cash.
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#7Misleading title - the article is about Pegasus and doesn't one mention open-source anything...
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#8When we tech people warned about this, the answer was always "I got nothing to hide". Now that it affects journalists, they are all shocked and write articles. We need till it hits politicians, then we can have new laws.
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#9Let’s start to discuss where we stand with open source smartphones, both in terms of software and hardware. Really worried about privacy and human rights. We cannot trust Apple and Google on this..
So you don't trust large US tech companies. Fair. But why do you expect people can trust a group of anonymous developers building open source smartphones?
Isn't that a large part of the open-source nature? Audit the code or hardware designs yourself, determine their trustworthiness from that. It's much harder to trust something when you can't examine the inner workings of it.
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#10Misleading title - the article is about Pegasus and doesn't one mention open-source anything...
That's definitely a twist made the person who posted the link here.