Queru: Another year of AOSP [LWN.net]

Queru: Another year of AOSP

Posted Jan 3, 2012 0:13 UTC (Tue) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804)
In reply to: Queru: Another year of AOSP by zlynx
Parent article: Queru: Another year of AOSP

Presumably the OpenMoko folks would care, as it would mean they could abandon their ridiculous suprerfluous proprietary firmware ROM chip.

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Queru: Another year of AOSP

Posted Jan 3, 2012 0:29 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

There is nothing to abandon.

Please see: http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-Dec...

> What you are probably referring to was a proposal by RMS/FSF to
> isolate that in hardware for a special variant that FSF could endorse
> (maybe with a different name).
>
> There did no appear a volunteer to build a prototype and demonstrate
> that it is working, useful and improves freedom at all.
>
> Without a prototype, we can't even think about adding such a thing to
> hardware and give it to FSF for promotion.

Apparently it wasn't the "OpenMoko folks" but rather the "FSF folks" that were behind this.