The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced "Librephone," a new project aimed at achieving complete mobile phone freedom for users from Google and Apple. The initiative will work to reverse engineer obstacles until its goal of a fully free mobile phone environment is realized. Can they be successful where industry leaders like Ubuntu failed previously?
The Ubuntu Edge was a high end smartphone proposed by Canonical Ltd. in July 2013. Canonical attempted to crowdfund a limited production run through Indiegogo with the ambitious goal of raising $32 million, the highest target in crowdfunding history at the time. However, the project fell short of its goal, raising $12,733,521. I remember getting refund for this project. At that time big companies with deep pockets like IBM, RedHat and other refused to support Canonical. Now we all pay price
@nixCraft Is that why they forced systemd on us?
@Lightfighter @nixCraft they were using Upstart back then. The Palm Pre shipped with Upstart as the init / service manager.
