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Geeksphone Stops Support for FirefoxOS with No Warning

posted by n1 on Monday June 15 2015, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the marketing-1-customer-0 dept.

quixote writes:

Just bought a FirefoxOS Revolution Geeksphone in mid-May. I mean, sure, it's buggy and needs improvement, but it's an open source, community-driven project. That is how it was presented to consumers.

It has nowhere to go but up, right? Wrong. Without any kind of transparency or openness or communication, the Geeksphone crew let us know in a one-line comment that they were orphaning all of us.

Re: Firefox OS 2.2
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2015, 05:34:08 PM »
No sorry, all FxOs development are finished by Geeksphone.

Thanks..... ;)

And that's all, folks. Apparently. To add injury to injury, they used a locked bootloader, according to another commenter. I didn't even check on that. It's an open source project, I thought.

I'm also mad as hell. Any other Soylentils in this mess? Anybody have any ideas on a useful way forward?

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @12:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @12:42PM (#196459)

    Have any other remarks to let everyone else know just how great you are compared to every and anyone?
    I don't think we are yet fully able to appreciate the total overwhelming grandeur that is your ego.

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