The Free Software Foundation has announced a project called “Librephone”, and I am quite excited about it. The scope of the project is narrow, which is superb. It is aimed at tackling the proprietary firmware and binary blobs which are currently necessary, even when one wants to use an alternative OS on a phone. I have a strong preference for Free software, but I have also accepted the proprietary blobs to be able to use existing hardware. I would much rather that they were not there thou...
