Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone (Ars Technica)

The article mentions "open" software. Most phones have lots of open source software, but also implement technical restrictions preventing changing the software (aka tivoization), so the open source software in the phone is not free software. See the practical section of https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-poi.... It used to be that most open source software that people used was also free software, but now that smart phones are so common, it's probably not the case anymore.

There has been tons and tons of work that people have put in to keep the nonfree blobs working while still modifying and improving their phone software. I'm excited to have a modern phone that we can finally modify and improve in freedom.