The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

    • Coopr8@kbin.earth
      7·
      24 days ago

      The project just launched and is a software-first project. We won’t see a Libre Phone available for a while yet.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        24 days ago

        And if Hurd is any indication I wouldn’t hold my breath.

        • Coopr8@kbin.earth
          1·
          23 days ago

          It isn’t encouraging that they “launched” the initiative bit have no dedicated webpage or git for it yet. Seems like going off half-cocked

        • Coopr8@kbin.earth
          1·
          23 days ago

          That said, didn’t hird basically die because Linux gained critical mass faster and peeled off the core developers? It would be nice to imagine another bottom-up mobile OS emerging and stealing the thunder of this one, but it seems like the hope here is that Libre Phone will gravitate in some of the devs from the existing top-down open phone projects. Who knows if that will work.

          One thing I wouldn’t count out right now though: China is very much in favor of getting software and hardware monopolies out from the control of US companies. Free/open(ish) LLMs are the big example, maybe they will jump on this to try and break Google’s stranglehold on the mobile market.