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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is achieved.

Practically, Librephone aims to close the last gaps between existing distributions of the Android operating system and software freedom. The FSF has hired experienced developer Rob Savoye (DejaGNU, Gnash, OpenStreetMap, and more) to lead the technical project. He is currently investigating the state of device firmware and binary blobs in other mobile phone freedom projects, prioritizing the free software work done by the not entirely free software mobile phone operating system LineageOS.

So a free phoneOS. Free of the crud. Free of the bloat. Or something. Unclear when or if we can except this to be finished. If ever. The hardware might put up some hurdles.

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project [fsf.org]

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