Murena, the French privacy firm that’s forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet. So if you’re keen to get your hands on a shiny Pixel Tablet — but without the usual bundle of Google apps and services — Murena has you covered.
It’s a way to fund development and make it possible for the masses to buy deGoogled. Not everybody knows how to install a ROM nor wants to take the time to learn. Even if it took a minute, they wouldn’t. That’s why this is a good initiative “wanna degoogle, just buy degoogled - no fuss, no muss”.
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Bingo, right now I don’t have a pc at all. If I wanted a degoogled tablet I would have to buy a pc and then learn how to do everything. If I only wanted a tablet that would be a lot of time and money just to get a degoogled device.
aww c’mon surely you know at least one person who has a laptop and would lend it to you for 20min
GrapheneOS can be installed using an Android device
https://grapheneos.org/install/web
So I can degoogle a device using a google device? That’s cool
Yep! You can use a Google device to degoogle a Google device, and then go back and use that newly degoogled device to degoogle that first Google device.
I buy your second idea. Not sure how this funds development.
You pay a premium to have Murena/eOS/whatever it’s called to be installed on your device when you buy it.
totalPrice = phonePrice + $degoogledROMInstallationPrice. Installing the ROM can be done manually or automatically. If done automatically, the money left over is paid to developers. The more phones bought with pre-installed, deGoogled ROMs, the more money goes to developers/development.If the devices are bought in bulk, they will probably cost less to Murena than what the consumer pays e.g
phonePrice = originalPrice - bulkSavings. Those savings can be passed on to development or whatever else Murena needs to fund.Anti Commercial-AI license
I can’t find anything like that on their website. Not to mention they’re pushing their own centralized cloud service.
I looked at their faq, I looked at their mission statement, I looked at their about us, nothing talks about sending money to EOS
https://e.foundation/get-e-os
@e_mydata@mastodon.social does purchasing a murena phone fund the development of eOS?
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On that page it says nothing about funds flowing from the phone sale to eOS.
Where did you get your original data to make the claim?