Something that I would offer that, though Purism does advertise, I do wish they would hit it home more, they give a lot to the FOSS community. No really, they g

Something that I would offer that, though Purism does advertise, I do wish they would hit it home more, they give a lot to the FOSS community. No really, they give back A LOT. - Phosh, their phone shell, it being worked into upstream GNOME, and libhandy, which they started, is in upstream gtk4. GNOME Calls used to be a Purism app, now it is a GNOME app being maintained primarily by Purism. - Several of their full time staff are Debian Maintainers and Debian Developers. One of the full time staff is a Mobian Developer and is very active in maintaining/developing Mobian. - Purism has made a lot of effort to ensure that their applications and framework is available to the Pinephone, and to the greater community. Purism's work has helped advanced the Pinephone many times over. - Several Purism employees are active in the Pinephone community, and help out not only the devs, but users who need help! - For those that know my work (I have been working on MMS and VVM for the Pinephone/Librem 5), the Purism developers took a lot of time to help and mentor me so that I could get these features out there. They simply did not have to do that, but they did. I simply do not think those features would be available at all if it weren't for their help. (To those devs, I won't name you as I don't know if you want to be named, but you know who you are, You have my sincere gratitude.) - Their Coreboot efforts has enabled others to port coreboot to other laptops. Here is one example: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html?thread=1900524 https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html?thread=1900524 These are just examples I am exposed to and can readily give off the top of my head. To me, a company that does that sort of work, I do think they are sincere in the fact that they have supply chain troubles, which is why the Librem 5 has taken so long to get into users hands. Also, I see that $799 price tag as not only buying the phone, but also paying the developers who do all of the wonderful things that I outlined above. As much as I like the Pinephone, the $150 you pay is for just that, the phone. Most of the software ecosystem you see from the Pinephone comes from unpaid volunteers (such as myself). I'm not saying that is a bad thing, I actually think having such a cheap phone is great! But I don't think a lot of folks have these things in mind when they see the difference in price. And before it's asked, yes, my Librem 5 has shipped, I should get the package early next week.