CalyxOS is great, I hope it comes back strong. If you want to try another degoogled OS based on Lineage with flexibility to install/uninstall any system app (like microG) and a built-in tracker and ad blocker I’d recommend IodéOS: https://iode.tech/
I was looking at iodé several times in the past and I don’t know why but it doesn’t click with me. Maybe I will check it out again, but I somehow don’t trust it 😀 Maybe its the way they present themselves, if you look at the pages it looks like some company that is just trying to sell me stuff 😀 (well they actually do, one of the first things is “buy an iodé phone”).
@dieTasse Well, as you say un Germany: you cannot live from air and love alone, can you?
Let alone offer support, keep servers and development going, do marketing to get the word out etc. And relying on donations or kickstarters alone is perilous and exactly the reason why so many promising open source projects failed.
The only other option to get money is Angel VCs and there are preciously little of them to go around. And their involvement sparks distrust immediately. So…
Of course and I am not saying its wrong to sell phones. If anything its good if they find business model that makes it sustainable. I just didn’t have good feeling about the whole presentation of that site, thats all I am saying :)
Indeed, they sell phones with their OS preinstalled, but they also offer an open source OS for free for anyone to download an install. In the end they need some income, and I’d rather they sell phones (saving the user the trouble of installing another OS on their phones) than do it through ads or other ways that offer no value for a user.
CalyxOS is great, I hope it comes back strong. If you want to try another degoogled OS based on Lineage with flexibility to install/uninstall any system app (like microG) and a built-in tracker and ad blocker I’d recommend IodéOS: https://iode.tech/
I was looking at iodé several times in the past and I don’t know why but it doesn’t click with me. Maybe I will check it out again, but I somehow don’t trust it 😀 Maybe its the way they present themselves, if you look at the pages it looks like some company that is just trying to sell me stuff 😀 (well they actually do, one of the first things is “buy an iodé phone”).
@dieTasse Well, as you say un Germany: you cannot live from air and love alone, can you?
Let alone offer support, keep servers and development going, do marketing to get the word out etc. And relying on donations or kickstarters alone is perilous and exactly the reason why so many promising open source projects failed.
The only other option to get money is Angel VCs and there are preciously little of them to go around. And their involvement sparks distrust immediately. So…
Of course and I am not saying its wrong to sell phones. If anything its good if they find business model that makes it sustainable. I just didn’t have good feeling about the whole presentation of that site, thats all I am saying :)
Indeed, they sell phones with their OS preinstalled, but they also offer an open source OS for free for anyone to download an install. In the end they need some income, and I’d rather they sell phones (saving the user the trouble of installing another OS on their phones) than do it through ads or other ways that offer no value for a user.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally get it and that is not the issue, I just didn’t feel I should trust them, but as I said, I will look at them again :)