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> I don't own a Pinephone, and from the looks of this debacle I never will. It doesn't seem that OSS is safe to run in safety-critical contexts.

Sound rather limited, almost stupid.

OSS runs in various safety critical software, FreeRTOS, also Linux and various other projects run in very critical environments, far more critical than a smartphone.

https://scholar.google.at/scholar?q=open+source+software+in+... https://scholar.google.at/scholar?q=linux+in+safety-critical...

You know that something is OSS allows letting anybody check this out in the first place, do you really think a proprietary phone is safe from this? There are many reports about iPhones and other smart phones catching fire each year.




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