Linux phones are more important now than ever

Article note: It really is becoming a huge problem, making two multinationals with histories of behaving badly the roots of trust for ...everything. Doctorow's "War on General Purpose Computing" premonition gets closer every day. The biggest shame is that we had Maemo, and it was ever so close to the ideal, then was killed by a process so aggressive and weird it is forever clouded by plausible conspiracy theories. The little bit of it surviving as Sailfish isn't enough to counteract network effects, but at least the embers are still there.