More news on "Purism":
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/08/09/the-truth-about-purism-behind-the-coreboot-scenes/
An outrageous twitter post from Todd attacking an actual RYF FSF certified
libre-laptop:
https://twitter.com/Puri_sm/status/629787848246341632
PC World did an article now too:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960524/laptop-computers/why-linux-enthusiasts-are-arguing-over-purisms-sleek-idealistic-librem-laptops.html
And so did IDG:
http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/10297/insult-anger-the-fight-laptop
I think parts of the articles are a bit misleading and fall into Todd's hand
unfortunately. The article still leads one to believe that Todd's doing
something only adding to the list of things he can't really do. He may get
PureOS endorsed by the FSF, but that'll just be further used to mislead
people about the laptops he's selling. PureOS is little more than a Trisquel
re-brand. I don't see this as moving things along. There are already two
perfectly good distributions, Trisquel and Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.
Re-branding Trisquel doesn't help anybody as these options already existed.
It can only be used to sell people on this idea that he's doing something and
put money into his little pocket.
And just to be clear with everybody- and Todd more specifically- since he
seems to think I'm behind this- I had nothing to do with either of these
articles being written, nor coreboot's attack on your genuinity. There are a
lot of people upset with you. I contacted one reporter who you (Todd) already
interviewed with and they have yet to do anything with that info. That
reporter actually already had questioned the authenticity of what you were
saying too (although I think it was only after the interview with you was
published).
The one article says "If you do want high-end, current hardware, a Librem
laptop offers a better free software experience than a MacBook, a Windows 10
ultrabook, or even Dell’s sleek Linux laptops, which simply plop Ubuntu on
popular XPS notebooks designed primarily for Windows. "...
While that is true, it's misleading, in that it's not any better than what
we've already got from a free software stand point.
