And I didn't buy it for $2, even in buk it costed me about the same price you
expect a wifi adapter to be available in resellers stores. Although I bought
it at this price from the manufacturer.
This statement was intentionally erroneous and I even stated that. You've
completely or intentionally missed the point I was attempting to make.
Your were comparing different things as if they were the same. I did the same
in response merely as an example of how ridicules it was. Our prices were not
out of line with the time period in which they were set.
I've acknowledged in the past we could lower prices, but it was probably not
in our best interest, or that of the community. Getting the company to a
point where it made sense to do so took a lot of work.
I acknowledge it's Unex DUNA-93F on my product page
Unex is just a supplier here and not the manufacturer. If you had ordered a
few thousand you could have had them branded too.
you asked them to update it so it states ThinkPenguin ships to Europe as well
I didn't ask them to add ThinkPenguin. I did mention that the press release
was misleading. It implied that Tehnoetic was the only place to get RYF
certified adapters in Europe. We have had operations in the UK since 2011.
You made enough profit last year to have the power to try to force me out
this year
We dropped prices about 4 months prior to the FSF Tehnoetic announcement. The
price drop was across our entire catalog and not just one little adapter. It
signalled a change in business model and was a long time in coming.
That's incorrect. I started by having prices lower than you and continued to
adjust them so I can stay competitive. I payed 50 euros for an adapter from
you in December. (And it arrived in 30 days.)
I'm guessing you bought the adapter off eBay from us. We were testing the
waters to see if a business model with lower prices could be sustained. It
could be and so we adjusted the prices on our main site.
The delivery time is highly dependent on the country and shipping method
selected. Depending on the destination and shipping option most people can
expect delivery within about a week at the most.
The USPS 6-10 day estimate is the officially advertised number from the
postal service to most major world destinations. For some destinations this
can exceed 30 days. For people in Eastern Europe in particular purchasing
with the UK shipping option is recommended for quick delivery.
because I didn't like the way you were doing business or your philosophy
(freedom-"friendly", nonfree BIOS, nonfree distros and you wanting to become
mainstream) and because I think independence is important and is possible in
the free software world we are building.
No currently manufactured laptop is 100% free. Our goal has always been to
enable people to run 100% free software. Excluding the majority simply
because they are not ready to adopt a 100% free distribution is
counter-productive.
The Gluglug X60 is an older refurbished Lenovo with 100% free BIOS. There are
likely still bits of non-free code needed on this system. Keyboards, hard
drives, microcode, and similar components.
You can also flash at least one Apple system with 100% free BIOS.
I have a few objections to utilizing Lenovo, Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba
laptops to base a system off. These companies utilise digital restrictions
and/or other proprietary parts in a way that is hostile to free software
adoption.
Apple and Lenovo are probably the worst and sadly these are the companies
which the community has been able to mostly free. I don't believe the free
software community is responsible for selecting these particular
manufacturers. This is simply a matter of practicality. The reverse
engineering work was done by people who are not necessarily free software
advocates. The digital restrictions issue would not have been a factor for
them. When the free software community came along they took the work of
others and did the only thing feasible. The community does not have the
resources to solve this problem and I'll refrain from being overly critical.
Unfortunately every time we use a Lenovo or Apple product with a 100% free
BIOS we're contributing to the promotion of hardware from these
manufacturers. Because of the color schemes and unique look of these machines
it isn't feasible to avoid such promotion.
I would like to offer a laptop with 100% free BIOS. However such a project is
resource intensive. The task is non-trivial in nature and we would almost
certainly never recoup the cost.
This said we can make a difference in other ways. As I've stated on these
forums we were involved in freeing the chipset utilized in the adapters
above. We also are finished with another product that is to be RYF certified.
This will be the first 100% free router. Not only is the router running a
100% free distribution, but it is also running a 100% free bootloader. In
some ways this is like a BIOS for embedded devices. We are also contributing
to the free software project that is making this 100% free distribution.
