After speaking with someone who knows, "freedom" here relates to "freedom from the manufacturing restrictions that make it hard to be an independent designer".

After speaking with someone who knows, "freedom" here relates to "freedom from the manufacturing restrictions that make it hard to be an independent designer". Apparently things like production minimums are one of the main reasons independent fashion companies go under. That being said, I personally don't see much here outside of statements of their intentions & values. On their blog there is a broken link to a github project (now found at https://github.com/valentina-project/vpo2 https://github.com/valentina-project/vpo2) to a Qt/C++ pattern-making app (GPL3) for anyone interested in that kind of work/being a part of this community. Between the 3 blog posts, hero-image of a book you can't buy, and the founder's profile picture being a pokémon, I think it's early days and shouldn't be judged yet.