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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?
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 15 2015, @02:22PM
One way is to contact Geeksphone. Another is "too bad if there's a buffer overflow sprintf() in your code wouldn't?" or code in stack .. :P
(which would allow anyone to detour the boot sequence just like with ordinary locked computerphones)
To the dear Geeksphone: Fix such that owners of said phones can load and install their own bootimages and kernels or watch your standing with the community go *P00F!*