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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:03 AM, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosravi@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I love to get ride of android altogether! |
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> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my |
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> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory. |
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> This is what I consider as the linux or more appropriately free software |
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> ecosystem. |
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It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS - |
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or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the |
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bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary). A vendor can just as |
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easily lock down a PC so that it will only run a version of Ubuntu 14 |
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that they issue, without a lot of hacking away at it (and that is only |
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possible because Ubuntu isn't really designed to be secure against |
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such things - if they went to something with a signed /usr and noexec |
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everything else and used kernel signature verification then you're |
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fully locked in). |
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> I dont know whay we are not there yet, touch screen is just another input |
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> device, baseband modulator and demodulators are just another device attached |
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> to the CPU. |
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FOSS developers seem to mostly be stuck in X11-land - it scratches |
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their itch which tends to be on the desktop. While touch screen is |
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"just another input device" the fact is that you need to design your |
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entire application UI around it. Likewise there are a lot of other |
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considerations when going mobile, like syncronization of data. A lot |
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of FOSS software isn't really designed around a paradigm of working |
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with the same data with multiple devices. |
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There is no cloud equivalent to LibreOffice yet either. |
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Another challenge is that our most popular licenses (GPL) are designed |
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around desktop applications and not the cloud. That means that I can |
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take LibreOffice, make a million changes, give it a web UI, launch a |
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Google Docs competitor, and not release the source code to anybody, |
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since I'm not redistributing the binary. So, when companies do |
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leverage FOSS in the cloud we don't get the benefits. If everybody |
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exclusively used AGPLv3 for their work, then we'd probably see a lot |
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more FOSS investment in cloud-based software. |
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Rich |