Hello everyone,
The more you debate about Purism products, the more publicity they get.
There is likely no difference between this phone and the generic products you
get from samsung, sony, xiaomi, etc, aside from the operating system. Even
Replicant phones still have non-free boot firmware in them, and this is true
of all Replicant-preinstalled phone suppliers.
Wifi, 3D acceleration and bootloaders / firmware are all very difficult to
liberate on mobile phones. Just look at the Replicant project to see how hard
it is. Then there is the issue of the modem (baseband processor) having
access to main CPU and RAM (and the modem's firmware is often updateable by
the celecoms provider).
If you don't like Purism, then stop talking about it or making threads on
forums about it. Purism's ability to raise awareness of itself is based on
people like you discussing it.
So my advice would be to stop talking about them.
Just my 2 cents.
~Leah
PS: fun fact: Purism doesn't mention Replicant at all on its announcements.
Or at least as far as I can tell, it doesn't.
If they were serious, they'd port Replicant to their device.
Of course, I'm sure they'll take this as advice and announce "Replicant
coming soon" on their marketing ;)
