It's fading from memory, but if it weren't for GNU and the Free Software Foundation, open-source, and Linux, indeed, most of our technology-driven world wouldn't be here.
The importance of their work and philosophy should not be underestimated. And the Libre principles are more important now than ever before.
Libre says that the user is king and the system must never be used to oppress the user. Rather the user must have fun control over the system and it’s code.
In a time where all operating systems not desktop and mobile are abusing users, taking their data and locking away the code from them accessing it, we must remember and practice the libre principles.
Use Linux on the desktop and Android on your phone. Especially custom android if you can, but even stock android still gives you a lot of control and 3rd party apps exist which protect your data.
On iPhone you have no such protection and are totally under the control and whim of apple.
I’m really not sure if I would name any stock Android in that list. There’s not much “libre” about it. Compared to Apple, sure, but that’s a ridiculously low bar. We’re still missing good alternatives for mobile phones.
Unlike iOS you can get it as AOSP which is totally open source. Sure you need to add the blobs for the specific device etc but at least it’s a good base to work off if anyone wanted to make an Android based open source phone.
iOS could never do that.
Agree though they overall there is no “true” FLOSS mobile os and the KDE and gnome one’s still have a long way to go.
Not really. Apple collects as much as Google does, I guarantee you, but they just claim they don’t look at it. Yeah right. Tell me another story Apple…
The importance of their work and philosophy should not be underestimated. And the Libre principles are more important now than ever before.
Libre says that the user is king and the system must never be used to oppress the user. Rather the user must have fun control over the system and it’s code.
In a time where all operating systems not desktop and mobile are abusing users, taking their data and locking away the code from them accessing it, we must remember and practice the libre principles.
Use Linux on the desktop and Android on your phone. Especially custom android if you can, but even stock android still gives you a lot of control and 3rd party apps exist which protect your data.
On iPhone you have no such protection and are totally under the control and whim of apple.
I’m really not sure if I would name any stock Android in that list. There’s not much “libre” about it. Compared to Apple, sure, but that’s a ridiculously low bar. We’re still missing good alternatives for mobile phones.
Unlike iOS you can get it as AOSP which is totally open source. Sure you need to add the blobs for the specific device etc but at least it’s a good base to work off if anyone wanted to make an Android based open source phone.
iOS could never do that.
Agree though they overall there is no “true” FLOSS mobile os and the KDE and gnome one’s still have a long way to go.
You should add degoogling for android phones. Unless degoogled, Android phones are worse than iOS.
Not really. Apple collects as much as Google does, I guarantee you, but they just claim they don’t look at it. Yeah right. Tell me another story Apple…