[Arm-netbook] The dream of Ara

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <hier at wolfgangromey.de> wrote:
> I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a modular
> smartphone.

 it's not: they lied.

> I use it with the FairPhone Open Os, which is Google free. Of
> course I could root it without problems. I know (luke) that it is not real
> free hardware and comes with blobs.

 you mean, "it comes with software from one of THE most unethical
companies in the world that is undergoing court cases for
anti-competitive practices, where we KNOW that they just roll over and
give direct access, through their OS, *AT RUNTIME*, to allow arbitrary
code-execution OVER THE AIR without your knowledge, EVEN IF THE DEVICE
IS POWERED DOWN?"

l.