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ux266478today at 3:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

All phones end up reliant on proprietary blobs. Not that I disagree in principle, but we have to be realistic. Hardware manufacturers, telcoms and to some degree regulators all do not like user freedom with regards to phones.


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nebula8804today at 5:55 PM

Isn't the Librem 5 fully open?

zb3today at 4:13 PM

But AOSP is open source while Sailfish OS is not. Also "proprietary blobs" != "proprietary blobs" (there's varying level of obfuscation/debug info).

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