1. The "potential issues" you claim to exist is FUD. We at Technoethical
guarantee this. The reviews of our products and the comments prove our
products are of the best quality.
2. We have already answered to your unsubstantiated claims. It's not
criticism because you don't hold the object of critic (our laptop) in your
hands. It's not constructive because you are trying to invalidate our
product, not improve it.
3. Your claims that proved to be false:
* "The actual thickness of the T400S is not much different to the T400"
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116053
* "on regular T400 you can install and use a quad-core CPU"
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116053
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116070
* "the T400S can get quite a bit hotter than the T400"
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116154
4. We've tested the two laptops (T400s and T400) using processors of about
the same frequency. We don't compare apples with pears. You should know
better.
5. You don't give any detail about your tests. T400 using what processor,
what system, what testing software, for how long.
6. Let's not talk about the quality of your products and service. Please
don't make me break the silence by posting under anonymity the complaints
from our customers that have previously ordered from you and were mistreated
by you and deeply disappointed by your company.
7. You wrote: "That's why I personally made sure that your company was openly
endorsed on libreboot.org". Are you seriously bringing this up after mocking
me for opening the issue that only Minifree was ever listed (except for
Libiquity for a brief moment) as supplier at libreboot.org?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-issues-open-letter-free-software-community#comment-112697
You then have decided to delete the suppliers page altogether, but you needed
it again after FSF didn't link to your products anymore, after seeing that
you have redirected X200 and T400 to X220, which violates the RYF
certification.
Should I also remind you that initially you have separated your company from
Technoethical and Vikings with a wall of text about eBay sellers that you
have called "Sellers on eBay" (because it helped your alphabetical ordering;
S < T < V) and that few days later you have introduced product categories in
the list so that visitors have to scroll down if they want to learn about
other suppliers? https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/170
8. You are again comparing apples with pears. When comparing Technoethical
products with the ones from other suppliers, you intentionally don't take
into consideration the final prices and the laptop configurations for their
respective prices.
9. You wrote: "We were not receiving any sales, before the price drop, since
our laptops were overpriced." I'd say that cutting the price to half from
€500 to €250 in 6 months is a price dump. I'm not the only one that says
this.
10. We are based in Romania, so please spare us the lecture about you
suddenly wanting to help free software users from poorer countries. Again, if
we could afford to buy one lot of 100 laptops with €20/piece we'd probably
could compete with you. But Technoethical is 2 orders of magnitude smaller
than Minifree, so we don't have the capital to do that. The *cost* of our
T400 laptop is 250 EUR (not including the service), so how could anyone
expect us to sell it at cost and continue with our business?
11. Regarding ThinkPenguin, I've never made unsubstantiated claims and the
proofs are in the forum discussions that other community members have
contributed to as well.
12. I promise you, I'll break the silence about your Minifree's practices if
you attempt to spread more FUD about Technoethical products.
