Developer tweets about Librem 5 flaws as not open source!

[Caliga]

If the choice was

• regular updates of proprietary firmware that has RAM access
• no updates of proprietary firmware that has NO RAM access

I’d always choose the latter.

It is misleading to say that a lack of updates via OS mechanisms is a lack of freedom. You are free to update the components, although it might be inconvenient.
It’s the case already for the coreboot update script.

Besides, Purism is in discussion with the FSF about this.

Questions on Bluetooth

Yes, you are right to some extend and this argument is exactly what is currently debated with the FSF and others. The basic idea is to treat a device which contains the firmware in some form of internal storage as hardware - like some other chip which has a specified function, you get a documentation for it and you can be ind f sure that this hardware will always work the same way and can not be tweaked to do malicious things without you noticing. But this clearly opens up the question of how t…

Sandboxing

• The Librem 5 has a HSM (smart card), there are plans for secure boot.
• Wayland provides some isolation that Xorg doesn’t have.
• Flatpak (PureOS Store) provides sandboxing.

A lot of the criticism has no base.
The rest can be summarized with
“OMG, they are not perfect on day one, how dare they1!1!!!11!!!”