Librephone project wants to remove proprietary “blobs” from smartphones that otherwise run open source software
There are plenty of smartphone operating systems that are mostly made from free and open source software, including de-Googled versions of Android like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, and e/OS and mobile Linux distributions like postmarketOS and Ubuntu Touch.
But while the operating systems are open source, they often rely on proprietary, closed-source “blobs” to interact with the phone’s hardware. […]
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