The Librem 5 has long since gone off-course. Even before all of these supply/deliverability issues, they have never really attempted to deliver a "free" phone.

The Librem 5 has long since gone off-course. Even before all of these supply/deliverability issues, they have never really attempted to deliver a "free" phone. What it seems they're actually trying to do is deliver a phone that the FSF will certify as "Respects your Freedom". Unfortunately, that certification is not just complete snake oil, but actually encourages devices that reduce your freedom. I made a Twitter want about how the Librem 5 is doing entirely the wrong thing here: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1040626210999431168?s=19 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1040626210999431168?s=19 TL;DR the FSF lets you have blobs as long as the user doesn't see them and the main CPU doesn't touch them (not run then, like, it can't even touch them/set them up/upload them to another CPU). This means that not only are you running proprietary firmware, you also don't know you're running it, you can't see it, you can't change it, you can't audit it, and you can never reverse engineer it and replace it with a free version. Having a pile of blobs in /lib/firmware respects your freedom a hell of a lot more than that nonsense.