Good News for Purism's Librem One Market

There’s this issue: Librem.one not a valid hostname

I don’t know whether “the world” has improved since February as far as that particular bug in web sites goes.

Perhaps this makes sense. When ISPs first got into the business, if the ISP didn’t provide you with an email address, there probably wasn’t any other option for you to get one. Nowadays there are at least two alternatives to an ISP email address:

  • there are any number of free and paid email service providers, and
  • there are any number of other ways of communicating online i.e. instead of email, use some messenger / instant message platform.

Having an email address from the ISP just isn’t as important as it once was, and it is also a barrier to competition. (Clearly the second point would not motivate the ISP to drop its email service - quite the reverse - but if enough customers realise this then it may become uneconomic to continue to operate an email service.)

We here all understand that if you are not paying for the product then you are the product. So if you want to be spied on then you would use a ‘free’ service.

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