>>>> To summarise. Many months after Purism started taking orders >>>> for Version 2 of the Librem 13, Qubes formally withdrew its >>>> certification leaving users in the lurch. In the meantime Qubes >>>> pocketed $100 per order in commission. This is unforgivable, >>>> indefensible behavior. >> >> It's worth noting that the commissions the project received were >> never enough to cover the cost of our developers' time and labor in >> performing the testing and certification process, but we knew this >> would be the case going in. This was never about the money; it was >> about trying to make it easier for Qubes users to find compatible >> hardware. > > That's easy to say Andy, but have you any proof? Qubes is > an Open Source project so why not open up the qubes accounts and let > the users see some factual information. Surely, there can't be > anything to hide?
Purism doesn't publicly publish the number of laptops it sells? If you convince them to do so, then multiple the number of Librem 13 (rev1) that were chosen by the user to have Qubes OS pre-installed by $100 to get the amount the Qubes project received from them. The "lurch" is that new users can no longer order laptops with Qubes pre-installed and the Qubes project no longer receives a commission for these laptops. These seem like not good things for the Qubes project -- why would we want this outcome? Your Librem 13 rev2 will probably work fine with Qubes, feel free to make a HCL report and share it with the rest of the community, I'm sure others would appreciate it: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hcl/ -- Michael Carbone Qubes OS | https://www.qubes-os.org @QubesOS <https://www.twitter.com/QubesOS> PGP fingerprint: D3D8 BEBF ECE8 91AC 46A7 30DE 63FC 4D26 84A7 33B4 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7529916c-9942-a310-cc52-f12487e8092b%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
