> It's made by people who care about software freedom.
How do I know that?
The first I saw about Librem was their original laptop that made clearly overstated claims about its openness. (e.g. claiming a device that used intel CPUs would have completely open firmware). After that I paid no further attention to them.
Re:Google Fights Back
by commandocrypto on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:44AM
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A lot has happened:
https://puri.sm/learn/freedom-roadmap/
For instance, all the firmware is completely open. The BIOS can be flashed by the user. What openness do you feel is lacking?
It's made by people who care about software freedom. It doesn't use the common ARM-based SoCs which require proprietary drivers and will be unusable with modern software in a few years. Everything except the cell modem (on a replaceable M.2 card connected over USB) runs 100% free software. The device as a whole runs Linux with Gnome, and Plasma Mobile + others also developing for it. The company contributes back to the OSS software they use/improve.
It doesn't have the form factor of the TRS-80 Model 100, but basically the deal you get with it is that you pay the price of a decently high end smartphone in exchange for a midrange smartphone which is completely controllable by you, as much as a normal Linux desktop, but still offers a 'pretty good' UI out of the box for normal phone usage.
[0]: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/