I wont let this go, since it doesn’t address the “myths” at all.
Purism was not the first company to sell neutralized and disabled ME.
They built a company on shilling customers and misdirection.
I don’t say they achieved nothing - I explicitly said that they now look
like a reasonable company.
I looked at the posts on certification for Qubes - amazing that a 6 page
piece should be prepared to explain why they decided not to continue
certification. That should be just a 1 paragraph statement.
I said at the time - I don’t know how much Purism actually paid, and
neither do you. Nor how much Qubes made from the deal.
The “actual reason” I saw was not what the purism fans stated.
As I recall Purism got certification for one laptop. Then produced
another laptop with different hardware, but called it by the same
name, and represented it as also certified…
I remember the mailing list being hit by people who had bought a
laptop that was described as Qubes certified, only for Qubes to make it
clear that that laptop was not certified.
There were other users who had bought the Qubes option, but received
laptops with no OS and no install media.
Was all this just a mistake? An unfortunate accident?
It’s not true that Zlatan’s claims “are proven false”. He was talking
some time after leaving the company, and speculating about how what he
had seen would pan out.
His experience of the way the company was run and operated fits in with
what other employees have reported, and chimes with the way that the
company has operated.
As to the success of the phone, when I read of people paying 700USD and
waiting over 3 years to get a brick with no battery life, I don’t see
that as a success.
I haven’t looked at the purism forums before - I was reminded of Apple -
the same sort of apologies, and justifications.
It’s obvious that we aren’t going to agree: you are invested in
Purism, and I have no interest in them. I don’t like their business
practice and it taints their products for me.
I have no problem working with 10 year old hardware - older sometimes,
and other boards more free than Purism will ever be - different strokes.