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Re:Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services by seba_dos1 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:41PM (#19790137)
Two things - you're not paying for apps in any way, they're FLOSS. You're paying for services - infrastructure, administration, "cloud" space etc.

Also, while Purism is indeed a for-profit company, it's actually an interesting case since it's a Social Purpose Corporation - it's not there to maximize profits, but to maximize its social purpose. It legally can't do anything that would be at odds with its legally defined social purpose: https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/

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Re:Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services by jclay on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:58PM (#19790306)
I see your point, but as they’ve also created the apps under their brand it seems likely the monthly fee would also go towards (hopefully!) the continued improvement of those apps.
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Re:Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services by seba_dos1 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:09PM (#19790423)
Judging from my past interactions with people from Purism I'm pretty sure their goal is to have all their improvements going upstream, with forks focusing mostly on branding and cross-integration within the bundle and their hardware.
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