On 03/05/2018 03:01 PM, andrewashbac...@gmail.com wrote:
> Purism is a scam, their laptops are not at all libre or open source and
they never will be for a variety of reasons.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3anjgm/on_the_librem_laptop_purism_doesnt_believe_in/
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/onpon4/m/what-purism-s-road-to-fsf-ryf-endorsement-chart-should-look-like/
Don't buy from them, you gain no security and you are supporting a bunch
of scumbags.
These links are about two years old and Purism has made significant headway in
that time.
Wrong - both are still 100% accurate.
"Headway" so what exactly? They still use FSP, they still have a blobbed
EC, video, power etc and disabling ME is still not only impossible but
illegal too.
Their coreboot ports do zero hardware init all of it is done by Intel's
FSP binary blob.
It isn't as if it is impossible to make real freedom hardware but thanks
to them the idea of a libre laptop has been ruined in the average
persons head and the freedom hardware movement is set back by a decade
or more - now everyone expects absolutely brand new x86_64 hardware
instead of POWER, ARM, or older AMD x86_64 hardware and they also
believe that you can disable ME and have real freedom on intel hardware.
They could have admitted they fucked up and for instance collaborated
with raptor engineering to offer a POWER laptop, but instead they
continue to double down and keep making false claims.
I encourage you to seek updated information and others to do their own
research.
How much are they paying you?
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