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by AsyncAwait 2808 days ago
> Will a Real Hacker spend unpaid time to fix security bugs in this phone, then also host this for free and distribute?

That's how the vast majority of free software was developed for a very long time indeed.

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But not to the size and scale of a phone operating system.

Most major open source projects face corporate sponsorship. Or provided by universities.

The Librem5 will run a standard GNU/Linux distro, many of which are entirely community maintained.