Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

FSF Launches Fundraiser For Replicant

Posted by Unknown on from the gnus-fire-off-the-shoulder-of-orion dept.

gnujoshua writes "The FSF has launched a fundraiser for Replicant, the fully free Android distro. As of version 4.0 0004, Replicant runs on 10 different devices, but, the hopes are that with additional funds, the developers will be able to purchase more devices and grow the project so it will run on more devices. Yesterday, the FSF asked Mark Shuttleworth if the Ubuntu EDGE would commit to using only free software and be able to support Replicant. But, in an AMA on Reddit, Shuttleworth confirmed that Replicant would not be supported because the EDGE hardware will require proprietary drivers/binary-blobs." Replicant now supports ten devices, compared to only the HTC Dream not all that long ago.

2 of 63 comments (clear)

  1. Not support?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bah! Whoever is responsible for not giving away their work for free should be shot. This is worse than nVidia not giving away all of their IP and writing open source drivers. This is worse than M$ not porting and SUPPORTING DirectX on all distributions of linux. This is worse than M$ not porting .NET to linux. This is worse than Adobe not providing FLOSS Photoshop on linux. The list goes on and on.

    On a side note - does anyone have a 3D printable model of Stallman's dick? I'd like to shove it in my ass when I'm hacking my linux boxen.

  2. Re:Google's against everything the FSF stands for. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They want in on the lucrative for-profit surveillance market, courtesy of your taxpayer dollars.

    ( ...and for the one or two dumbasses who say its open source and anybody can view the source code, then you can pour through SELinux source code and sell me with 100% certainty that there are no clever tricks, or compromised compilers, which make it completely exploit-proof )

    -- Ethanol-fueled