Re: [Trisquel-users] Librem 15: A Free/Libre and Open Source Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms

[bob]

I really don't think that this is a "win" for the free software community.  
Nothing new or special has been done here. All "Purism" is doing is buying  
laptop shells that everyone else on the planet could use, forking an already  
wonderful free software distro and making claims that they are working  
directly with the Free Software Foundation and Intel.Many of us have tried to  
get the Intel Mangement Engine firmware freed and have failed. Why would  
Intel work directly with Purism and not with any developers or companies that  
have already tried to reach out? If Purism really did care about free  
software and the communities built around it, why would they work so hard to  
work against them? Why can't purism just install Trisquel GNU/Linux on their  
laptops and call it a day? Or better yet, why has Purism not reached out to  
developers who have already spent and wasted so much of their own time to get  
these things freed ?  Maybe some of our time and energy should be spent  
elsewhere and some of us should just give up. I know that the actions of  
Purism and some recent campaigns really have me close to just giving up on  
the free software community.