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You aren't buying a phone when you buy the librem 5. You are funding the development of open source phones so there will eventually be a v2 and v3 which are bet
by SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
You aren't buying a phone when you buy the librem 5. You are funding the development of open source phones so there will eventually be a v2 and v3 which are better value for money when the hard work was done in v1.
- inquirerofsorts 6y ago> You are funding the development of open source phones You're funding a FOSS operating system and a phone with some security features. We already have dozens of open source mobile OS's, the hardware design is still proprietary. What's really needed is an open source baseband firmware and no one is funding that sadly. Despite the baseband/cpu isolation I fear it still has a host of vulnerabilities up its sleeve. One AT command away from certain doom (yes that's sarcastic hyperbole with a sliver of truth)
- m463 6y agoThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- solarkraft 6y agoYou're also funding the allegedly inefficient supply chain. Too bad I can't find the post about it right now, it was from an ex-purism guy. Edit: It's the top one of the two linked by pengaru (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143382 / https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-Todoric-Interview https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...). > Purism seemingly never tried to get better deal and the South San Francisco partner abused this so that is why Purism Librems are double the price they should be.