Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
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(12-02-2020, 09:27 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I wish we could say "Open Source Software" in stead of "Linux".

NetBSD is why I'm here, and it's not a linux distru.
AOSP is FOSS too, but the entire purpose of the project is avoiding it. You could call it "Linux and *BSD", but that's slightly unwieldy. Plus at that point, what if someone wants to port e.g. Plan 9? A perfectly descriptive name might be "non-AOSP FOSS phone" but that's even more unwieldy.

So while I agree, I can understand the rationale behind the shorthand of just calling it "Linux". Much like how most people don't bother spelling out "GNU/Linux".


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RE: Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100? - by displacefish - 12-03-2020, 04:47 AM

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