Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?

[SheemOn Shapiro]

You are grossly inaccurate and historically a defeatist.  When we started
developing bad Unix and later Linux, everything was closed.  Google was a
search engine and no more.  Look at the current Linux source tree and then
repeat your statement...
 On Sep 25, 2013 9:30 AM, "Dmitriy Nikandrov" <dmitriy.nikandrov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not only phones,
> but also laptops, desktops, routers, etc... Even Raspberry Pi in it's
> heart is closed source.
>
> The problem is that there is no OPEN HARDWARE chips (with open firmware):
> for Wi-Fi
> for GSM (even can't be because of patents on core specifications)
> for LTE
> for GPS
>
>
> 2013/9/25, Nick <replicant at njw.me.uk>:
> > Quoth Brian Kemp:
> >> To be clear - the driver is free. The firmware is not.
> >
> > Gosh, looking at the table on the status page [0] I see that there
> > are no devices which have wifi without non-free firmware. So there
> > are no phones which have either free wifi or free gsm parts? The
> > situation sucks even more than I realised as a casual observer.
> > "Sure, you can use your phone freely, so long as you don't want any
> > connectivity."
> >
> > /me sighs.
> >
> > 0.  http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus
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