Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

Posted Apr 14, 2016 17:42 UTC (Thu) by Del- (guest, #72641)
In reply to: Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation? by Wol
Parent article: Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

Sorry if I misunderstood your post. Galaxy Ace was AFAIK never an open source friendly device. I would guess it has a number of blobs that makes it near impossible to support. Continuing rock solid support is near trivial when all needed modules are in the kernel. For routers, this picture is very clear, there is typically no effort with continued support. It is typically the closed bits, and device lock downs causing support to be dropped. Hence, I believe your example only serves to underline the difficulty of supporting closed devices.

Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

Posted Apr 15, 2016 0:52 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And as seems to be very common, the device had several updates which, while the apparent change was trivial, the effect under the surface was quite major. There were a couple of model numbers assigned to the Ace. I have two C3050i's iirc the model number. All Aces were C3050, and the plain C3050 is supported by Cyanogen. Unfortunately, that little "i" at the end means my model isn't :-(

Cheers,
Wol