Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop

Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by dandelion_lover on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @07:30AM (#10737388)

They are by far the best except for the Ministry of Freedom [0], which sell FSF-certified, but comparably slow laptops. And they admit that as I mentioned above.

Only after enough users is involved in freedom seeking, it can be possible to demand large companies to provide something we need. In my opinion, Purism do a lot in this direction.

[0] http://minifree.org/

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by madez on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @08:07AM (#10737531)

What things did they do beside marketing? What was achieved?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by dandelion_lover on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @05:02PM (#10740819)

I am not sure whether you consider this marketing, but for me important things are (0) demonstrating the interest of customers in freedom, (1) explaining what's wrong with "ordinary" laptops to the public; increasing awareness in the media [0], and (2) working closely with QubesOS to make this system work on their laptops. Hardware switches are also very good.

And yes, it might be a scam. But might be not.

[0] (1) is being already done by FSF, but to me it looks like it's not enough.

[ Parent | on HN ]