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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/26/19 9:50 AM, Bernhard E. Reiter
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Am Mittwoch 25 September 2019 16:07:36 schrieb Paul Boddie:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wednesday 25. September 2019 15.17.24 Carsten Agger wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I send the following question to Fairphone support:
"I'm interested in buying a Fairphone 3, but I'm not interested in
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Thanks for requesting this,
I think it is helpful if potential customers voice their preferences
for Free Software.
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I got this response from Fairphone:<br>
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"For Fairphone 2, we offered also <a
href="https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032971751"
rel="noreferrer">Fairphone Open</a>, an OS that does not have
Google services pre-installed.<br>
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<b>We are currently investigating the possibility of bringing back
FP Open on Fairphone 3.</b><br>
<p>It is still possible to install alternative operating systems on
our Fairphone 3 (advanced users can unlock the bootloader - but
this voids the <a
href="https://www.fairphone.com/en/legal/fairphone-3-warranty/"
rel="noreferrer">warranty</a>!), however, <b>we do not offer
support for any different OS</b>."</p>
<p>The "Fairphone Open" option looks interesting, but the thing
about voiding the warranty if you unlock the bootloader is <i>not
good enough</i>. <br>
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<p>It is, on the other hand, completely understandable that they
can't offer support for other OS's.<br>
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