Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android

[wraggster]

"While Android is open source, it won't work on a phone without software that generally isn't open source. The Replicant project (http://replicant.us/) is an attempt to build a version of Android that doesn't rely on binary blobs for which the source code isn't available to end users, and the software currently works on a handful of handsets. I caught up with the project's lead developer to talk about their efforts to make a completely open source version of Android (http://www.techworld.com.au/article/417902/replicant_developer_interview_building_truly_free_ android)."

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/03/08/1324237/chief-replicant-dev-on-building-a-truly-free-android