What native PinePhone application would you like to see in the near future?
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(06-01-2022, 08:37 AM)SwordfishII Wrote: You do know that your wifi, bluetooth, GPU, have proprietary blobs right? How about intel's IME and AMD's equivalent. 

In fact, my AP (Access Point; WNDR3800 running libreCMC), GPUs and chipsets (Asus KGPE-D16 and Intel GPU based ThinkPad T60s running Libreboot) are all running fully Free Software, thank you very much. Especially no IME type stuff, as I find that particularly egregious. Of course this all took some effort on my part.

(06-01-2022, 08:37 AM)SwordfishII Wrote: Snark like this bothers me. You have proprietary code on your computer right now in some fashion.

Even if I did (and I still do in a few places, like some SBCs, other GPUs, PinePhone, etc.), I still don't follow your logic.

1. Does that make the behavior of companies who do that any less sociopathic? I don't think so.

2. Should we just give up then, and accept this terrible state of affairs? I don't think so.

I think it is very much worth working towards the end goal of fully Free Software, as much and as often as possible. It's not an all or nothing proposition. This is not only my point of view, in fact this is the official position of the Free Software Foundation.[0]


[0] I could not find a link just now, but I could swear I have read this somewhere on FSF website before.
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RE: What native PinePhone application would you like to see in the near future? - by TRS-80 - 08-01-2022, 01:46 PM

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