Yeah. I ordered a Liberty Phone and Librem 14 based on all that drama to see if I could help with the Purism money supply, since the second hand info from folks was that maybe Purism was on hard times financially when too many people wanted refunds.
But I don’t feel like anybody manipulated me to spend that much money. It was how I felt about the reality of the Librem 5 in my hand. It actually worked, and reasonably well, so then I felt a bit like it was probably worth far more than I paid for it.
I don’t want to take that kind of money from other folks, though. So if it was ever true that my Librem 5 only exists because of some other guy who preordered and never got anything, I would hope that Purism would be forthcoming about that and tell me to send them lots of money, or that the cost of Librem 5 was going to have to be higher, or something.