I would hope this does something, since Android has been the only free major mobile OS for a long time and I’ve relied on it via custom ROMs (e.g. GrapheneOS) for years. However, I think it’s become clear that we can’t trust corporations to manage technology well, and anything belonging to a corporation will eventually become corrupt under current economic and legal structure.
I think our best bet is to develop a decent Linux-based OS for mobile devices that can actually compete with Android and Apple, and pool our efforts as a community into maintaining it. Maybe a fork of the original open source Android that is maintained and patched for security would be a good idea. I’m not a mobile dev, so I don’t really know what it would entail, but it seems like we need a mobile OS ecosystem like the GNU/Linux ecosystem for desktops.
I would hope this does something, since Android has been the only free major mobile OS for a long time and I’ve relied on it via custom ROMs (e.g. GrapheneOS) for years. However, I think it’s become clear that we can’t trust corporations to manage technology well, and anything belonging to a corporation will eventually become corrupt under current economic and legal structure.
I think our best bet is to develop a decent Linux-based OS for mobile devices that can actually compete with Android and Apple, and pool our efforts as a community into maintaining it. Maybe a fork of the original open source Android that is maintained and patched for security would be a good idea. I’m not a mobile dev, so I don’t really know what it would entail, but it seems like we need a mobile OS ecosystem like the GNU/Linux ecosystem for desktops.