Mobile phone details: Sailfish and Mediatek (Re: Strategy and serendipity)

2019-05-10 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 15:05:53 schrieb Paul Boddie: > >  * https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ > >  * The advances with chipset for MediaTek and other main > >    SOC producers > >  * SailfishOS(X) > > I actually posted a summary of visible and/or viable projects on the > Tinkerphones mailing list

Re: Strategy and serendipity

2019-05-10 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 14:41:59 schrieb Carsten Agger: > I'd say a reasonable goal would be that it should be > realistically feasible for *everybody* to choose to use only free > software, on all kinds of software-equipped devices that people normally > use. The challenge is that "realistically

Shiftphones details

2019-05-10 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 15:05:53 schrieb Paul Boddie: > >  * https://www.shiftphones.com/en/ > > You may have to provide a little more context about this for those of us > who do not readily read German and who are unfamiliar with this initiative. It got on my radar when I was looking for an envir

Mobile devices and Free Software state of the art info point? (Re: Strategy and serendipity)

2019-05-10 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Paul, your posts contain many thoughts. For me to respond in a useful way, I'll try to split up topics. There are lessons to be found in the overall picture of course, but it will depend on the detailed chain of arguments. When exploring some parts first, this is because I feel I can contribute t

Re: Mobile phone details: Sailfish and Mediatek (Re: Strategy and serendipity)

2019-05-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 10. May 2019 09.58.09 Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Am Mittwoch 08 Mai 2019 15:05:53 schrieb Paul Boddie: > > > * https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ > > > * The advances with chipset for MediaTek and other main > > >SOC producers > > > * SailfishOS(X) > > > > I actually posted a sum

Re: Shiftphones details

2019-05-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 10. May 2019 09.35.28 Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > > Seems they were starting almost at the same time (2013/2014). As someone who > supported fairphone 1 and fairphone 2 users, I know a lot about the good > and bad decisions from Fairphone first hand. I don't about Shiftphone so I > don't