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eat it too.
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<h2>Other Related Initiatives</h2>
<h2>Other Related Initiatives</h2>
<p>
Even though this campaign is about Android, there are other
initiatives that make it possible to use small mobile computers with
(mostly) Free Software. Due to the driver situation of mobile
hardware, none of these initiatives really can run such machines in
freedom. Non-free drivers and firmware are needed for many peripherals
to work.
</p>
<p>
On the hardware side there is the <a
href="http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/">GTA04 phone</a>.
It is the follow-on for Openmoko GTA02 and was designed to require no proprietary drivers.
It runs GNU/Linux, but it requires non-free firmware in order to use the
WiFi. So close, yet so far away.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo">Maemo</a>/<a
href="https://meego.com/">MeeGo</a> initiatives developed systems for mobile phones based
on GNU/Linux, with many nonfree components. They have now moved into
<a href="http://merproject.org/">Mer</a>
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen">Tizen</a>.
While Mer is a community effort to continue work on the
MeeGo codebase using Qt, Tizen is a corporate initiative that uses
only parts of MeeGo plus Enlightenment and HTML5.
</p>
<p>
Mozilla is working on the Boot to Gecko operating system whose concept is to
provide only a browser running web applications. This raises the usual issues
of Software as a Service, on top of the possible nonfree drivers.
</p>
<p>
Also WebOS was <a
href="http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/12/open-source/">announced to be released
as Free Software</a>. It remains to be seen whether all parts will be free
and whether there will be new devices shipping WebOS.
</p>
<h2>Contact</h2>
<p>
If you have any questions about this campaign,
you are invited to send an email <a href="android@lists.fsfe.org">to our mailing-list</a>.
Everybody interested in the campaign is
<a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android">subscribed</a> there,
so your message will reach everybody who is involved.
</p>
<p>
For general information about FSFE's work that is not related to the "Free Your Android" campaign,
please use <a href="/contact/contact.html">the general contact page</a>.
</p>
<p>
Even though this campaign is about Android, there are other important
initiatives that also have the goal to allow you using small mobile
computers in freedom. There is the spiritual Openmoko continuation <a
href="http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/">GTA04 from Golden
Delicious</a>. It builds a free phone without the need for proprietary
drivers. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo">Maemo</a>/<a
href="https://meego.com/">MeeGo</a> initiative has now moved into <a
href="http://merproject.org/">Mer</a> and <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen">Tizen</a> and tries to be an
alternative free operating system. Also WebOS is <a
href="http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/12/open-source/">about to be
liberated</a>.
</p>
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<h2>Participating Organisations</h2>
<p>
<div class="image">
<a href="https://fsf.org/"><img src="/campaigns/android/fsf.png" alt="Free Software Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation" /></a>
<a href="https://www.foebud.org/"><img src="/campaigns/android/foebud.png" alt="FoeBuD e.V." title="FoeBuD e.V." /></a>
<a href="https://fsf.org/"><img src="/campaigns/android/fsf.png" alt="Free Software Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation" /></a>
<a href="http://ansol.org/"><img src="/campaigns/android/ansol.png" alt="Associação Nacional para o Software Livre" title="Associação Nacional para o Software Livre" /></a>
</div>
</p>