Aral Balkan
Imagine if Mozilla were what it says it is and had released Firefox OS under GPL…
Instead, they did the research and development (with some of your money, if you donate to them) for a third-party company to come and close it off in a commercial product. Oh and for their patron, Google, to invest $20 million on top to create closed “smart feature phones” to farm the data of the <strike>poors</strike> “next five billion.”
*golf claps*
https://tuxphones.com/smart-feature-phones-revolution-kai-os/
Jakub Klawiter :mastodon:
@aral
So… what browser is closer than Mozilla to place Mozilla says it is?
Aral Balkan
@wariat Browser? We’re talking about phones.
(Mozilla is about the best you can get under capitalism/Silicon Valley. If you want a private by default browser see the LibreWolf fork. Otherwise, maybe one day we’ll find a browser for the common good from the common purse. Until then, you have a list of differently shitty options to choose from.)
Aral Balkan
@freequaybuoy Oh, it’s a huge success. KaiOS is the third most popular mobile phone OS in the world.
It’s just not free/open.
It was enclosed.
With Mozilla’s blessing.
James 🦉 #FBPE :europe:
@aral Did look promising, as did Ubuntu Phone, but the problem was app stores. Even Windows Phone which though late managed to capture 3% of the market struggled to get app parity with Apple and Google, even paying developers to port. After that the only alternative mobile OSs to gain any traction were those with Google Play, meaning they were basically Android based, such as Amazon Fire.
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