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There's zero chance that the future Librem laptops will be "truly" open source. They will still have ME or AMD equivalent. Their entire marketing campaign is fr

• throwaway88881 10y ago
  Agreed. They are dishonest in how they market their computers. I bought a computer from them specifically because it was supposed to come with qubes installed and have no problems running it. It was "qubes certified" and they include the option to install qubes when you buy it. After I received it however it wouldn't boot past the disk encryption screen, it kept giving errors. Purisms response was to first say that they had fixed the problem but my unit had shipped before it was fixed on my computer. Then they back tracked and said they had never seen this problem before. Then they stated it wasn't their fault and they had no guarantees that qubes would run correctly. Then they suggested you shouldn't buy one of their computers unless you were willing and capable of dealing with bugs like this. At least they did let me return it after several very cross email exchanges.
• IntelMiner 10y ago
  They're quite competent con men. If you call them out about it (as the Coreboot developers did) especially on Reddit, they give very dismissive, yet non-committal comments "We're in talks with Intel" "They really want to do this" "We're going to make a petition to show interest to Intel" The reality is that even Google with their Chromebooks, despite hiring most of the Coreboot team and shipping volume into the likely millions of units, was unable to persuade Intel. Even for the absolutely tiny set of CPU models they use