Firefox OS is the way to go!

If I understood this blog post correctly, Fairphone is no longer working together with MediaTek, and has switched to Qualcomm:

The processor in the Fairphone 2 will be a Snapdragon 801 by Qualcomm :wink:

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Youā€™re speaking of the right to copy and modify some abstract piece of text. I am speaking of the right to have safety in the work environment, to right of being paid a fair wage, the right of unemployment aid and all the human rights that are trampled upon in so many places in the world.

The western world is obsessed with copyright and license with armies of lawyers to distract everyone from those problems where people are not having enough to eat, where theyā€™re dying in mines, being crippled in their jobs that do not provide the safety that they deserve. What have we achieved if we had open sourced everything and the whole software was free!? People are still dying and suffering in producing and recycling those things where you super-free software runs on. Software can never be free if the hardware it runs on isnā€™t free. Itā€™s not a single bit more fair if you run Firefox OS on a phone thatā€™s manufactured by slaves, because the only one who receives that additional fairness is the first-worlder.

http://www.electronicstakeback.com/global-e-waste-dumping/

Copyright and license are first-world problems, but the first world is a pretty fair place compared to the third world.

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There is a meta bug in the Mozilla Bug tracker for porting Firefox OS to the Fairphone 2:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139642

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Great news! If you are interested in the port of Firefox OS on Fairphone and have an account on bugzilla, vote for it!!!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139642

EDIT: a new laucher that emulate firefox OS 2.5 for the curious, without need to technical skills (itā€™s just a laucher): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/2.5/

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You actually can now check out Firefox OS on Android via a Launcher Mozilla created
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/2.5/

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There is an active topic about this:

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Hi,
the Fairphone 2 is a great project, not only from the hardware point of view as described here, especially from ethical point of view. The final aim of the project shares many principles with Mozilla. Unfortunately, at the moment the official OS for the Fairphone 2 is Android based and there is also a working progress in order to port Sailfish OS.
What about Firefox OS support? In my opinion, this is a crucial to make the Fairphone 2 really fair.
Thank you

I think i heard someone here in the forum whisper something about Firefox OS. Stay tuned and keep an eye on the blog.

(It will almost certainly be a community effort thought!)

Hi,
I read this thread and I also voted on bugzilla. What can we do in order to facilitate the porting of Firefox OS?

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Yeah, really just need to have an option, such as a rom switch when users turn on the device for the first time.

I understand the appealing of android to the masses, so I donā€™t think outright FFOS would work.

The truth is fairphone is quite expensive, FFOS may well be an important distinguishing factor from Galaxy, Nexus, Moto, LGā€¦ etc.

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It looks like FirefoxOS builds may soon be available for Fairphone:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139642

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Please vote the bug in order to speed up the porting process :smile:

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Iā€™m proud to announce that a first build of Firefox OS for Fairphone is available https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139642
Now the problem is that no one of the developers has his own device in order to test the build. So if one of you want to be a beta tester, please go https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139642 and register himself.
Moreover, the official page of Firefox OS for Fairphone on MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/es/Firefox_OS/Guia_para_desarrollador_de_telefonos_moviles_Boot_to_Gecko_developer/Fairphone has been updated by myself in English and translated in Spanish and in Italian. Unfortunately, Iā€™m not able to add more languages, but it could be very useful to translate this page also in French, German and Portuguese.
We are close to have our first truly fair OS for Fairphone :smile:

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Iā€™m notifying @Douwe. Maybe he wants to get in touch with the developer community over there.

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Thats exciting!!

I would register as a beta tester, but do i need any development skills to be able to test it?

Have you not heard the news? Seems like Firefox OS is the wrong way to go.

Mozilla abandons Firefox OS smartphone efforts

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Those news were wrong, see here:

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Where can I download the OS?

This was a misleading newā€¦