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535 points raddad | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kevin_b_er ◴[30 Mar 16 15:02 UTC] No.11389769[source]▶
Sounds like a regression on Canonical's issue #1. The resolution case was "A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.". This article does indeed appear to showcase active work toward a regression on bug #1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

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schoen ◴[30 Mar 16 16:22 UTC] No.11390421[source]▶
Mark Shuttleworth marked that bug as resolved a couple of years ago, which I think was a mistake. I recently reproduced this bug in that I went to a local PC store and attempted to buy a machine without any proprietary software. They said that they didn't have any such machines available (never mind a majority of their machines, as suggested by the original bug text).
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1. vlunkr ◴[30 Mar 16 16:34 UTC] No.11390528[source]▶
He also uses the popularity of Android as part of his reason for closing it. Sure, Android itself is open source, but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS.
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2. kogepathic ◴[30 Mar 16 19:09 UTC] No.11392042[source]▶
> but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS.

Can you elaborate?

I'm not aware of any physical Android devices which are able to boot and function as an Android device (e.g. with a hardware accelerated GUI, can make phone calls over GSM/CDMA) that don't require proprietary vendor blobs.

I am excluding the Android emulator because I don't think it qualifies as a "device"

3. mastax ◴[30 Mar 16 19:24 UTC] No.11392186[source]▶
> but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS

This is pedantry, and certainly there's a sliding scale of openness for devices. But unless I'm very mistaken, there are no devices available that even approach 'purely FOSS'. What would such an 'Android' phone even be? No google play services, no google play store, crippled and buggy open GPU drivers, and still a proprietary baseband. Not that I'm happy with this situation it just seems impractical.