F-Droid posted about this 2 days ago in their TWIF (This Week in F-Droid)
Fairphone as a Service (FaaS)
Commown (website in French only, sorry) is a French cooperative that supports fair and sustainable electronics by buying, and then leasing Fairphones to their customers. They recently announced you can now choose between Fairphone OS (Android with Google apps) and Fairphone Open OS (AOSP without any proprietary app).
They preinstall several apps on the open version (F-Droid, Fennec, Silence, Amaze, etc.) so the user experience for beginners is better than only having the outdated AOSP system apps. All these apps are installed from F-Droid so they will continue to be updated by the F-Droid client.
More reading:
- Commown at Solarimpulse
- Commons as the model for the future (Medium.com link. Sorry again.)