[AusNOG] [off-topic ?] FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System

[Lloyd Wood]

It won't gain ground.


Last I checked, Android was built on a not-sufficiently-free-for-the-FSF Java that was being sued into the ground by Oracle.
http://www.fsf.org/news/oracle-v-google
and the FSF wasn't too approving of Android in general
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html


So the FSF has given up on trying to make the Android OS properly free, 
their Replicant Android-alike isn't going anywhere much since firmware 
is hard and deployment is hard and reliability is impossible and even 
the carriers can't ship Android updates, and so the FSF is going after 
the application developers instead by inciting user pressure, since 
being open on top of a-closed-you-can't control is about all they can hope for at 
this point?

But won't open applications with source lead to more lookalike applications and malware in the various Android stores?

"We want Free Angry Birds with Source!"

Lloyd Wood
lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood
 
Lloyd Wood
lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood



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 From: Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>
To: ausnog <ausnog at ausnog.net> 
Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2012, 15:38
Subject: [AusNOG] [off-topic ?] FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System
 
Figured since probably a lot of listers use Android in some shape or form, this might be useful info, see if it gains any ground...

FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System
http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120228-01.en.html
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