Andrew McGlashan <[email protected]> writes: > On 05/05/17 15:08, Ben Finney wrote: > > Another example is the ZeroPhone, which is a hell of a lot more open > > than most Android phones because it's built on a Raspberry Pi Zero. > > > > <URL:https://www.crowdsupply.com/arsenijs/zerophone> > > The Raspberry Pi has binary blobs, does the Zero have none?
I don't know. Given the number of devices in most smartphones that require binary blobs, I would think it safe to say what I did: that the ZeroPhone is a hell of a lot more open. > Oh and I agree with the rest of your post, but we need the better > alternatives to go close to what is available otherwise in features, > specs and performance; or at least enough to make the devices still > useful. Yes. Those alternatives only get better by sustained, widespread, vocal demand and funding, from people who say in public they're demanding and funding a device *because* it is more open. Waiting for them to get better *before* deciding whether to support them, is just leaving it to the existing market. Which is what gets us where we are today, so is not a solution. -- \ “The problem with television is that the people must sit and | `\ keep their eyes glued on a screen: the average American family | _o__) hasn't time for it.” —_The New York Times_, 1939 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
