alt Hacker NewsIt is way past time to build a 'people's phone', funding it through a platform like LiberaPay [1][2] or Open Collective [3][4], with a requirement for the device to be completely open-source.
[1] https://liberapay.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberapay [3] https://opencollective.com/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Collective
If we start today, we could have a new phone in 2-3 years. Future generations will thank us.
It's not just phones. There is a concerted movement by massively-moneyed folks to destroy the fabric of open society, so there are a number of different areas that need attention. A coordinated effort across the breadth of society to restore, maintain or improve the foundations of open society.
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Open phones are all fine and well, but good luck convincing banking and government applications to work on those (especially in countries where bank login is used to access government services).
I think you are 2-4 orders of magnitude off if you think donation could be enough for a project as important as Android where 1 day delay in fixing security issue is just disasterous.
So we don't even have a 'people's battery' to power up this phone. All these phone pouch batteries are proprietary in design. Go ask Framework for their BMS design details and provide links to it if you think I'm joking