The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. “Librephone” is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.

Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to study, change, share, and modify the programs users depend on in their daily lives to mobile phones.

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    7 hours ago

    No I get that, and I agree for the most part, but do we want people outside our niche to use this stuff? If so then making it more palatable and accessible is important. Look at proton; it’s done amazing things for Linux adoption by lowering the fear factor that Linux has had for much of its life.

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      There’s a happy medium imo. Linux is enjoying a bit of a golden age at the moment because so many people are doing brilliant work making it usable and nice. But if the userbase becomes too large, tech companies will see their bottom lines affected, and it’ll be enshittified like everything else. And it’ll become a more attractive target for malware, of course.