In 2006 I first visited Taiwan. The reason back then was Sean Moss-Pultz
contacting me about a new Linux and Free Software based Phone that he
wanted to do at FIC in Taiwan. This later became the Neo1973 and
the ,
even though that's not the default of what they ship.
The many binary-only drivers / blobs, from the graphics stack to wifi
to the cellular modem drivers. It's a nightmare and really scary if
you look at all of that, e.g. at the binary blob downloads for
Fairphone2
to get an idea about all the binary-only blobs on a relatively current
Qualcomm SoC based design. That's compressed 70 Megabytes, probably
as large as all of the software we had on the Openmoko devices back
then...
So yes, the smartphone world is much more restricted, locked-down and
proprietary than it was back in the Openmoko days. If we had been more
successful then, that world might be quite different today. It was a
lost opportunity to make the world embrace more freedom in terms of
software and hardware. Without single-vendor lock-in and proprietary
obstacles everywhere.
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