Plasma mobile and Fairphone

[Marco Martin]

Most important, if anyone has any contact to anybody working there...
brilliant and let's talk ;)

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I heard about your project about Plasma Mobile, which is honestly one of
>> the best things I've heard about. I'm really glad you guys made this
>> project, because first of all, Android was too Google controlled, iOS,
>> we'll, is iOS, Ubuntu is too far away from the regular Linux distro model,
>> and Jolla is a closed source piece of garbage. This actually seems like a
>> good idea that will appeal to most of us. So I have an idea, since most of
>> the phones running Android right now (and every other mobile phone) is like
>> super closed source with like the worst of blobs that will never be able to
>> be replaced, I have an idea, maybe you guys should discuss with Fairphone‎,
>> which I heard were trying to get more open hardware on their phone, which,
>> coupled with your goal of a fully open software stack, could be for the
>> better of things. Is there any thought about this at all?
>
> Hi Omar,
> I also thought about Fairphone at some point, spoiler alert, I love
> their work. It definitely makes sense, there's 2 main difficulties: we
> lack the people who could approach them (Fairphone or any other
> manufacturer, for that matter) with guaranties and I have the
> impression it wouldn't be all that easy to adopt the hardware under
> our software stack.
>
> On the other hand, I hope we all can pull these issues off, as a community.
>
> The main question is: who is on board and how are you going to help?
> Aleix
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