For almost five years, we have been doing the exercise of replacing stock OS on phones. We can tell first hand how oftentimes unnecessarily difficult/impossible it is. In the interest of reducing the insane amount of e-waste and truly being in control of our devices, we need laws that allow us to install any software on any device!
Thanks to @fsfe for writing a nice open letter about just that, we happily signed it:
https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html
@fsfe @postmarketOS @frankie #tizen and #sailfish OS should also sign that.
@tuxedocomputers and @purism maybe also for you?
Maybe additionally, hopefully some day, dropping support for a product will lead to a legal obligation to opensource it.
@postmarketOS
I reached out to Samsung Support about rooting one of my phones, and they said no. Granted, they did say it was for security reasons, but still.
@fsfe
@postmarketOS @fsfe
I do hope this goes through as where I live (the US) sees many benefits by proxy from what the EU accomplishes with phones.
I'm still happy about forcing them to use universal wires.
@frankie @postmarketOS @fsfe #Replicant and #LineageOS should also sign that. Normally I’d suggest #maemo as well, but perhaps it’s better if they stay irrelevant now that they’ve become a closed community (blocking tor) & their website has become dysfunctional (can’t even read the news).