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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • Hi there! I see you‘re spitting thruth again.

    I have since gone with the programme for a couple months and developed some foss software, helped make foss software and tested some foss software.

    The general impression I got from it was: most of it is used without any reciprocity of any kind. The bigger projects get some donations and some also get code.

    But stomping new projects out of the ground is pretty much impossible that way because you will have to invest 100s of hours to test and program. Nothing you can do in a reasonable timeframe while having a day job and a life.

    So yes, I think especially for projects south of a certain size, companies should pay. Dual licensing was mentioned once. Something like agpl + commercial license if someone wants to use it closed source. I dont think it covers general profit seeking intent though.

    Have a good one.










  • And I‘m with you on needing a phone that works. Sadly, wishing it were in that place right now doesnt help. On the other hand neither does just jumping in the deep end.

    With open source stuff, real people need to help out, either with work (eg testing) or with money, because the „build company, make open source thing, profit“ doesnt really work that way. Companies like pine64 deserve to be flush with money because they actually care to make something thats ours.

    So yes, I also have a main phone for work atm while tinkering with the postmarketOS phone until I deem it stable enough for daily use.

    And thats what I suggest to people who are willing and have at least one old phone they cant or dont use anymore.

    P.s.: the fact that there are this many distinct phones that do at least boot while they are barely able to pay one person for dev work is actually great news.



  • I agree on all points but the last.

    Over two hundred phones have been ported to postmarketOS and every person giving it a shot will improve it. Together with grapheneOS, there are huge possibilities to mix a phones versatility with the freedom of linux. Combined with manufacturers like fairphone and pine64, phones also become more easily repairable.

    The issue currently is that we have become ver accustomed to phones being very polishe. a lot of folks dont appreciate the free and open source phones and OSs due to their freakishly expensive, subscription ridden devices being optimized better.

    If tech interested folks would default to repairable phones and open OSs, we would make a considerable jump towards being mainstreamable.

    I‘m not saying people are at fault. Its just the way it currently is. We‘re seeing big improvements. I hope this continues.