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We have long passed the point at which it was obvious we needed an open smartphone alternative, but even after years of effort, none of them Pine64, Librem, etc.) are suitable for daily use even by us propellerheads, and completely hopeless for Grandma.

Just maybe instead of advocating vaccine-induced genocide, Bill Gates should try turning his hand to real philanthropy by funding a couple of open smartphone projects (no strings attached) to develop both open software and state-of-the-art open hardware for next-gen smartphones. Yeah, I know - dream on...

But seriously, this takes money - and a non-trivial amount of it. Who will step up to fund this? If no one does, we're locked in for another couple of decades at least...




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