| Title | Shops are Selling Devices with the Replicant Mobile OS Pre-Installed | |
| Date | Tuesday December 08 2015, @03:12AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the more-freedom-out-of-the-box dept. | ||
Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security. It is based on CyanogenMod and replaces or avoids every proprietary component of the system, such as user-space programs and libraries as well as firmwares.
Replicant aims to be an ethical system: it does not ship nor recommend the use of non-free software.
...and that The Replicant blog reports on devices which are now available with Replicant pre-installed:
[More after the break.]
A few months ago, we were contacted to discuss the endorsement of an online shop selling mobile devices pre-installed with Replicant. [...] We asked for some conditions to be met before endorsing the shop, especially conditions that have to do with informing final users:
- Users should not be mislead into believing that the devices are fine for freedom and privacy/security. There are plenty of issues remaining, that are explained in general on the Freedom and privacy/security issues page of the website and in greater details on each device's wiki page (when documented).[...]
- The devices should ship with the official version of Replicant, not a version that was built from source and signed with different keys. However, it is fine to pre-install free applications originating from F-Droid on top of the system, as long as users are made aware of it.
[...] At this point, the following devices can be bought pre-installed with Replicant:
Replicant gets kickbacks donations from sales of the Qibre devices. Both Replicant and the F-Droid app repository benefit economically from sales of the Tehnoetic devices.
[1] Redirects to a numerical IP address for me. (...and that's a dead link. 8-() [Takes me to http://92.19.232.58:59999/ and that DOES work for me. -Ed.])
WRT blogs: Does it irritate anyone else when comments are numbered top-to-bottom but are listed chronologically bottom-to-top?
Does anyone know of a trick to make those paradigms work together seamlessly?
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