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I hope other vendors will follow their lead but I'm certainly not holding my breath.

• jstanley 9y ago
  Purism have already been doing this. I think this is system76 following purism's lead. https://puri.sm/products/ https://puri.sm/products/ Edit: not to detract from system76! It's excellent that they're doing this too.
  • prophesi 9y ago
    Yeah, Purism is awesome with their privacy, security, and libre focus. I'm really hoping their Librem phone is a success.
    • jstanley 9y ago
      I'm thinking of buying a Purism laptop. The only thing stopping me is that I just bought a ThinkPad a few months ago and it feels wasteful to buy another laptop so soon...
    • allemagne 9y ago
      I've heard a lot of great things about them and I love their mission statement, but I've also heard a lot of bad things about availability, shipping, and spotty customer service (but again, occasionally great customer service). I'm not sure what to think and whether to get my next laptop from them. It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. It gives me Firefox OS and mobile Ubuntu vibes.
      • cyphar 9y ago
        > It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. By not using x86 (the board is going to use i.MX8), they remove a whole series of issues that plague modern laptops (no ME, no EMC, etc). They have a very long run-down on why they chose i.MX8, and the freedom status of the components[1]. [1]: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8/