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

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, Informative) by kaszz on Monday June 15 2015, @02:17PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday June 15 2015, @02:17PM (#196492) Journal

    * only invest in portable computers that have the complete source or not at all.

    Doesn't matter if the evil device uses code signing. You can have the source, can modify, can compile, upload it etc. It still won't run unless you get the blessing from the noble oligarchy in the form of a signed cryptokey.

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