Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We meant the same thing then. Nothing prevents Motorola from making changes to GrapheneOS, making it closed source, and blocking software/firmware changes on their phone so that you can’t install the open source original.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Any phone manufacturer can do it and they don’t need any special deals with GrapheneOS for that. GrapheneOS would definitely not support Motorola making some secret changes to the OS before installing it so this news is the complete opposite of such situation.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS would definitely not support Motorola making some secret changes to the OS before installing it so this news is the complete opposite of such situation.

      I completele agree, I am answering the hypothetical you brought up:

      How would Motorola lock it down?

      I don’t believe they will do that, but you asked how could they do that. And the answer is they could easily do that, deals or not.

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      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, technically it’s possible. Technically they can also hire GrapheneOS guys and make future versions closed source. In the context of this news both things are unlikely though.

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