Replicant: a clone of Android with free applications

By Jean-Louis Petrod on July 29, 2013

Probably final abandoned operation but replicant, the clone of Android is still there and stronger than before as today ' today the free software Foundation calls for donations and plans a portability of the system on other devices.

In the sense of the FSF are donations collected first be used to finance the purchase of new machines, used in connection with the development of software and the realization of various tests.

With regard to financing for the development of the portability of this clone of Android called replicant on other devices and needs much they are strangely not so high that it. So costs explains the hardware amount between 300 and 400 euro, such as Richard Stallman, President of the organization.

The clone of Android comes replicant.

Inspired by the designation for the humanoid in the 1982 film presents Blade Runner, replicant itself as a completely free Android distribution or native owner of applications such as Google maps or Google game be replaced by free applications. The official application of the Google OS platform is thus non-F-droid, a catalog of free applications that can run on any Android device.

This clone of Android actually the principle that traditional operating systems like Android or iOS and Windows phone force our liberty we use proprietary software but also threaten our security, so that their authors share access to our personal data.

And it is precisely this notion of security, which presents itself as one of the main motives of the Organization in the development of this operating system mirror. In any case, the idea is not bad, cheap and should find its audience among more conscious than others if users on the security of their personal information and who do not necessarily want to go under Firefox OS.

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