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<p>A small correction/mea culpa:</p>
<p>Matthias has (and thanks! :) )pointed me to this Mastodon post:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@bruno/105854405626581664">https://social.anoxinon.de/@bruno/105854405626581664</a></p>
<p>It provides some links showing that there's in fact an official
between Fairphone and the /e/ OS, and that the /e/ foundation is
selling Fairphones with /e/ pre-installed.</p>
<p>So that's great news! It may in fact be an important step for
Free Software on Android. Also, I did not know that when I wrote
my post.</p>
<p>But, here's the thing which I still think they could improve: I
read the description on their own web page quite closely. I might
have done more research, but I'd have liked to see the free OS as
an option on the shop page - I wouldn't mind if the option came
with a warning against the missing Google apps, but it would be
nice if that option were included as just one more way to get this
fairer phone.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Carsten<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07.03.2021 17.26, Carsten Agger
wrote:<br>
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<p>I just bought a new Fairphone 3, and the experience inspired me
to write the following on their official forum. I think I was
called to do this mainly because I really like th project and
think it's a shame they focus so little on free software, now
they've apparently got so many other things right.<br>
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<p>"I just received my FP3, and it’s a lovely device, following
suit on FP1 and FP2, both of which I’ve owned (the FP1 is
bricked, the FP2 reboots randomly and needs a new mike - I
suppose the mike could be fixed, but I dont know abt the
restarts). </p>
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<p>Anyway, I really like the device and the work Fairphone is
doing for a fairer production cycle and a fairer product in
terms of repairability.</p>
<p>However, in one respect I believe the phone is <em>not</em>
fair: It comes preloaded with Google’s Android including the
full Google Apps suite - i.e., with a proprietary OS and a set
of proprietary and very surveillance-heavy apps. Negatively,
one might say it by default comes loaded with spyware. I don’t
get how that is fair. As a long-standing free software
activist and current member of the General Assembly of Free
Software Foundation Europe (talking here, though, solely in my
private capacity) I think that “fair” software is free - as in
freedom, i.e. with all source code available.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I get that many users want the comfort and
efficiency in the Google App suite. The FP1 came with only
free software from the AOSP project and a link to install
Google Apps. I thought that was fair.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you - Fairphone the organization - could sell
FP3s preloaded with LineageOS or Sailfish OS or one of the
other Google-free alternatives.</p>
<p>I do realize that I can install one of those on the phone
myself and will probably also end up doing so. But honestly, I
don’t think it is reasonable by the standards of a project
that declares itelf to be <em>the</em> fair phone - to put it
like that, I don’t think it is FAIR - that the general,
non-tech-savvy public can’t buy a fair and ethical phone that
doesn’t by default opt them in to Google’s global surveillance
circus.</p>
<p>All the best and congratulations with all the cool things in
the project,<br>
Carsten"</p>
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