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Stallman was right yet again. If people want to stop being shocked at the inevitable abuses by big tech, they should probably read his book and his blog.

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When the open source advocates didn’t like what the closed source companies did, they created open source alternatives. In the case of Linux, those alternatives were so good, that even Azure runs twice as many Linux instances as Windows instances. They won by creating something better.

Android compatible hardware is such a commodity, it’s not that difficult for a company to buy in bulk from an ODM, and put a custom build of AOSP on it. The market just really doesn’t care enough outside of China.

Seems the Pinephone is selling OK and that's basically what it is. I backed the Librem 5 and my batch is supposed to start shipping in late November. Most people don't seem to care but more are starting to as time goes on. Despite assurances every privacy advocate should be wary of contact tracing.

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