Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone

[chasepc]

It seems to me that a lot of the people here on this forum work in the  
computer industry and have fairly advance knowledge already.  Bridging the  
gap between developers and normal every day users is a big task.
Try and do some basic searches as if you were someone without any knowledge  
of fsf.org or similar things and see how far you have to dig to find it.  As  
someone who is not a professional in the industry it took me a lot of work  
just to get where I am at with my basic free setup on a x200.  I spent many  
hours researching just to find the company that I bought it from and after I  
got my computer in the mail I turned it on once and realized I didn't know  
what I was doing and didn't have time to figure out how to migrate my whole  
life over to this system so it sat on my shelf for 6 months until I had the  
energy to tackle that task,  as someone who spent most of my life using Apple  
products it left me with a somewhat learning disability.  It's like if a kid  
only read picture books until they were an adult and then someone gave them a  
real book and they had to learn how to read for the first time as an adult.

Once I decided to migrate to my x200 it was not easy, I've spent countless  
hours setting it up and still have a lot to learn and things to figure out  
how to setup properly.  I find it all very fascinating and like learning new  
things but it's certainly not easy and not everyone is willing to make that  
kind of commitment, or have the ability to.  I was at more of a disadvantage  
coming from Apple computers and I'm sure it would be a lot easier for someone  
already familiar with Linux but my point is that there is a lot of people  
like me or worse so bringing free computing products to the masses is a big  
undertaking.  I think it will take a similar marketing approach that purism  
is doing to accomplish this, in all honesty they do a great job in a lot of  
what they do, it's a shame their product isn't legit in terms of real freedom  
though.