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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Monday, November 07, 2016 a las 03:18:42PM +0100, Walter Garcia-Fontes escribió:

> > Hmmm, maybe I would have asked: What is the future of Ubuntu Phone at
> > all? I do not see any new, not even known devices, like the E4.5 at the
> > stores of BQ. Will this change in the future? Will there be other
> > hardware vendors for Ubuntu Phones? Will the OTA delivery continue?
> 
> You could substitute "Ubuntu Phone" by "Linux" and you would have
> exactly the same type of doubts. 
> 
> It's free software, so even if Canonical disappears it will still be
> there to hack/forge/use or whatever people want to do with it.

Even if Linux (or FreeBSD) is OpenSource, you need some hardware vendor
and firmare for the chips, for example the modem and wifi, etc.

In 2008 I started to use the first time Linux on a phone, the Openmoko
Freerunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

The BQ E4.5 and M10 (I own both) was a massive step forward i the sense
of having something useable and not only hackable.

	matthias
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