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by antoinevg 2447 days ago
Self-compiled Android without Google services is not a bad place to start.

That said, these single-vendor proprietary mobile platforms are all dumpster fires so it may be time to start developing a free software alternative.

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We need free hardware before we can build free software.

No one produces an LTE modem with open source firmware.

You absolutely do not need free hardware to build free software.

It was decades before the PC's we used to build FreeBSD, GNU, Linux etc. had even a free software BIOS available.

Historically, free hardware availability has followed in the wake of free software.