Well, the founder is also the Libreboot founder and lead. The Libreboot releases are signed with her GPG key, she isn't exactly a third party. So, as a siblin

Well, the founder is also the Libreboot founder and lead. The Libreboot releases are signed with her GPG key, she isn't exactly a third party. So, as a sibling comment points out, buying from her helps ensure Libreboot's continued existence. Additionally, in the past (I'm not sure what the financial situation is today), buying from her has also also gone to actually hiring developers to work on Libreboot and port it to more hardware. > Why can't people just buy the used laptop made by the big manufacturer and install it themselves? They can. The founder actually encourages this! At conferences she's run workshops to help people install it themselves.