My understanding is that people are getting the computers. The problem here
is Todd is claiming, falsely, that the computers are ever going to be
freedom-respecting the same way Gluglug's refurbished laptops are, when they
are actually at best no better than Think Penguin's in that respect.
Actually, it seems to me that they're also charging premiums for this; it's
possible to get a laptop from Think Penguin which seems to be similar to the
low-end Librem 15 configuration for around $500 less. I'm not entirely sure
about this, though; comparing hardware that you don't have physical access to
is difficult. It's not that important, anyway; having a more expensive,
higher-end option similar to Think Penguin would be perfectly legitimate and
good. The problem is they promise much more, and what they promise (a
high-end, modern x86 laptop which respects your freedom) simply cannot be
delivered.
Purism also seems to have no qualms with adding in more freedom problems on
the pretense that they're eventually going to be fixed (and note, of course,
that they're already promising to fix impossible to fix problems), so that
makes me hesitant to recommend or consider one of their laptops. I'd say that
you should consider them the same way you would consider a laptop from
distributors like System76, ZaReason, et al: look closely at the specs,
replace the stock OS with Trisquel, and expect problems.
