Plasma mobile and Fairphone

[Rohan Garg]

The fairphone looks like a brilliant product to collaborate with btw.

Cheers
Rohan Garg

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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