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0 pointstoolcombinator4y ago0 comments

The problem of course is that Purism markets the phone for security conscious people.

Not hackers who have the skills and impulse to mess around with binary blobs and microcode.

That’s dishonest.

Go take a look at the Purism’s website about the Libre yourself: “Security”, “peace of mind”, “digital privacy”.

You’re openly marketing the phone to regular people and businesses who care about privacy.

Nowhere on the site does it say: “BTW: We’re selling you a crippled phone because we wanted to get a fanatics approval. But if you study computer science you can fix that yourself!”

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seba_dos14y ago

> Nowhere on the site does it say: “BTW: We’re selling you a crippled phone because we wanted to get a fanatics approval. But if you study computer science you can fix that yourself!”

Which is good, because it's not "crippled" in any way no matter how technical you are, and having a clear boundary between user's operating system and the hardware with potentially nonfree firmware can be useful even when you're not a "fanatic". Thanks to this boundary, whatever you download from PureOS repositories on the phone is known to provide you the four freedoms, with no exceptions.

Of course not everyone needs to value that, but at least that's the value proposition Purism is offering with PureOS.

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seba_dos14y ago

> Nowhere on the site does it say: “BTW: We’re selling you a crippled phone because we wanted to get a fanatics approval. But if you study computer science you can fix that yourself!”

Of course not everyone needs to value that, but at least that's the value proposition Purism is offering with PureOS.

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