On 03/29/2018 02:52 PM, 799 wrote: > Maybe users buy a Purism laptop and next time they buy something even more > free ... That's still great. My issue is with purisms incredibly dishonest marketing, their pressure campaigns on the FSF, their insulting of their competitors - not their existence in general or the practice of selling of laptops that are only slightly more free than a dell.
You say "why do so many people bash purism" well they have done more than enough to deserve it - and last I checked I am the only one doing so whereas they employ plenty of shills and even probably pay journalists to issue glorified press releases....the tech media adores purism and refuses to publish the real facts or even just some articles on their honest competitors and I wonder why that is. Because of their dishonest marketing they've ruined the idea of what a free laptop should look like in the head of the average person, sucked away money from honest companies and prevented the existence of crowdfunding campaigns or start-ups selling actually libre laptops - all of these are bad. They have set the freedom hardware movement back by a decade, even more now that they've convinced people that they have "disabled" ME and that intel hardware is fine to buy again (it isn't) -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/4ee7d0ff-30ca-54f7-df1a-b1f7ff48cecd%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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