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Was excited about this project/company but just an FYI for others following the #LinuxMobile space, #Furilabs founder's position on #FOSS in his own words:
"i don't really care about stuff being foss"
Caring about stuff working and having a FOSS-only or a FOSS-first approach are not mutually exclusive, of course. Still hopeful though that they will benefit the ecosystem.
#softwarefreedom #freesoftware #freedomtech #opensource #FLX1 #linuxphone #gnulinux #phosh #librem5 #pinephone #postmarketos
Sep 14, 2024 at 1:41amTuba
Show threadEgeusGreenSep 14, 2024
@islamicaudiobooks Function over FOSS is what he says. flx1 uses Halium, so his opinion is not really surprising to anyone I guess. But yeah I agree, fully open-source solutions would be better.
Show threadClaytonSep 14, 2024

@islamicaudiobooks

wowzers. Well, at least #furilabs isn't trying to hide it 😅

Show threadfür immer und ewigSep 15, 2024
@islamicaudiobooks i was hoping for better news too, from #furilabs. Maybe it will be possible to flash other Linux OSes on their FLX1?
Show threadLINux on MOBileSep 15, 2024
@insl @islamicaudiobooks As long as FuriLabs keep their changes open (as they do as far as I can tell and should, to not violate copy-left licenses), this is okay, IMHO. If Bardia is, e.g., faster at editing an image with proprietary software and thus has more time left to spend on FuriOS or Droidian, this is not only pragmatic but also beneficial. A day only has 24 hours, and minus the time needed for meals and sleep, is quite short. Let's not be purists about aspects that don't really matter.
Show threadPavel MachekSep 15, 2024
@linmob @insl @islamicaudiobooks Of course, Furilabs can do the minimum required by law, but what was the reason to care about their hardware? Fairphone is actually doing more than minimum required -- they are working on upstreaming their kernel changes, perhaps take that one, instead? Or PinePhone? Or Librem 5? Ore OnePlus 6 (where vendor did the minimum but community is doing lot more)?
Show threadLINux on MOBileSep 15, 2024

@pavel
Yeah, I know. I think the selling point of FuriLabs is that they want to provide "Debian based mobile Linux, with all the features", hence shipping some Mediatek hardware with good Halium support. Do I prefer mainline? Absolutelty. But I think there are a number of users that just care that the stuff they expect works well enought (e.g., camera) and for that the Halium route is just so much more attractive.

@islamicaudiobooks @insl

Show threadPavel MachekSep 15, 2024
@linmob @islamicaudiobooks @insl Ok, that's not unreasonable. For me, mainline is important, but ... yeah, Debian is nice. I actually run Droidian on op6, but I hope to switch to Mobian in future.
Show threadfür immer und ewigSep 15, 2024
@linmob @islamicaudiobooks well I used #SailfishOS for quite a time and there was much hassle about parts of that OS being closed for unknown reasons and so no access possible. #pinephone hit a point there.
Show threadMiakoda Jan 15, 2025

@islamicaudiobooks

Eh...
There are things I will use proprietary apps for because there isn't a FOSS version, but indeed, I'd prefer if everything I was using was FOSS.
Risk is also something I take in to consideration. My PlayStation being about as opposite of FOSS as one can get is fairly low risk compared to my phone.