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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:45AM (#196726)

    You're right. Merely voted for the Patriot Act. Authored the Defense of Marriage Act. Extended the scope of the War on Drugs. Said all the right things in 2008 to get the LP nomination, the people in attendance went apeshit over having a minor celebrity in the audience and nominated him over Wayne Allyn Root. He spent most of the 2008 campaign drinking in bars all across the country, and promptly went right back to being a Republican as soon as the election was over.

    That doesn't change the fact that the LP sold out, just like Mozilla sold out.