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Buy unlocked Android phones
When you buy an Android phone you’re not necessarily buying a phone with an free/open source operating system. Most of Android operating system is licensed in a way that allows manufacturers to lock down the device and make it physically … Continue reading
Beyond removing GNU software from mobile stores
Last week the Free Software Foundation asked Apple to either remove the game GNU Go from the iTunes App Store or change the terms of service on it. Apple chose to simply remove GNU Go from the store and the … Continue reading
Why free software applications are a priority on mobile platforms (not device drivers)
Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are … Continue reading
Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community
Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter … Continue reading
Make Funambol work on QTopia, get paid and get a free phone
Why wait until summer to code and earn $3,000? Funambol has just announced the availability of a $3,000 bounty to develop a plugin to allow Funambol to run on Qtopia devices. Trolltech, the makers of Qtopia, was just acquired this … Continue reading
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È tempo di cioccolata o dei cioccolatai?
Negli ultimi giorni ho assistito ad alcuni episodi deprimenti. Google ha escluso agli italiani la possibilità di partecipare al concorso per lo sviluppo di applicazioni per Android, e questo di per sè non è piacevole. Ancora di più sono stati … Continue reading