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I’m fairly confident that each of your complaints has been addressed by at least someone in this forum, which means at least someone in this forum has examined what you have to say and formed a retort, which makes the crux of your argument a stacking-the-deck fallacy.

Unless, of course, one of two other things happened: A) those arguments were logically unsound, which you don’t mention here, or B) you simply ignored them because they didn’t agree with you, which would be more stacking the deck. Innocent until proven guilty, so let’s explore A.

WIthin the bounds of this thread, you’ve made two on-topic statements, one based on conjecture and the second a rant, twice replied to something off-topic, and twice engaged with someone who already agreed with you. Let’s only consider the two on-topic statements you’ve made.

The first was a conjecture-filled opinion comparing two companies with very different goals producing similar end-items. Pinephones are marketed as “hacker toys” and L5s are marketed as “Android and iPhone replacements.” Pine doesn’t write the software for its phones, Purism does; but, you’re more focues on hardware, so let us focus on that. Pine went with what worked, what was hackable/replaceable, and what was cheap. Purism, of its own volition, went with what worked, what was hackable/replaceable, and what could be configured such that they could achieve RYF certification. The latter constraint put quite a lot of restriction on hardware and even necessitated some custom manufacturing.

But perhaps you’ll turn a blind eye to that.

Additionally, saying “Pinephone can make a lot of cheap phones, why can’t Purism?” is like saying “Toyota can make a lot of cheap cars, why can’t Ferrari?” They can, but that isn’t what their goal is.

But perhaps you’ll turn a blind eye to that.

Your second on-topic post mentioned deceptive marketing and/or advertising and lies. “Lies,” I assume, refers to the refund policy. I will agree, as pretty much everyone here already has, that Purism should not have changed the refund policy without giving people a heads-up and probably an opportunity to get their money back at that time instead of just silency chaning the policy. We’ve all read about it, and most of us has spoken about it. Eyes looking at that topic have not been blind, and there’s evidence in multiple threads. Most of us have forgiven them. You are within your rights to not, but blaming, faulting, or getting angry at any of the rest of us for anything that has to do with the refund policy is an ad hominem fallacy. “Deceptive marketing,” I assume, refers to shipping scheduling and reports. Purism has never missed a scheduled date without explanation, even if that means a batch started shipping at the end of a window. It still counts, it would hold up in court, they did what they said they would. One’s understanding of how large a batch is going to be or the volume of units moved or any other details presumed by one that turned out to not be accurate is nothing more than a misinterpretation. Or maybe I missed something? I don’t read the blogs like I used to. Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t take this as another opportunity to cherry-pick. We won’t take you seriously otherwise.

I didn’t know Purism was horribly managed, when did you work for them? Or should we trust the words of ex-employees without evidence?

The point is, you have provided no reason for any of us to believe you, at least not here, and I’m not cross-posting. Message me if you like and then I can come back here and tell everyone how right you have been all along (provided you can prove it to me), otherwise your angry words will remain exactly that.

It would be nice to actually get to the bottom of all this, though. A discussion that isn’t a crusade would be most welcome.

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They are in business since inception in 2014 and are doing well. Crazy and Ambitious enough to think, pursue, design, work and deliver what most of us here wanted, Linux on Phone. Something Cannonical could not achieve given they were/are bigger than Purism. No fanboy-ism here but I laud their effort.

Not sure on your technical background @admsjas but developing something new takes time, something that includes hardware along with software even more. Agreed they were late in communicating at times but that does not mean they were not working on delivering it. I think they don’t have a small team for phone development, they have a micro, nano sized team compared to Apple and yet they managed to deliver a open phone both in terms of hardware and software.

Pinephone is building on what Purism accomplished. Not to belittle their effort but as a developer I feel, Credit should be given wherever due. And in this case, it is Purism who deserves it

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Is there a method to down-vote postings? I’m always looking for this after reading posts of “admsjas”, but I only see up-vote (the heart) :frowning:

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I think the moment you add a down-vote button to a forum, it becomes like reddit. Easily turns into a community where unpopular opinions get down-voted even when (or especially when) they are well-written and presenting solid arguments. Better to keep it like this, without downvote button.

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Totally agree. I can understand wanting to down vote, but that is why I’m done with Reddit. Someone has to just not like the way you type (or some other trivial thing) on there to be down voted.

When you consider the amount of quality dialog this prevents, then you understand why something like Reddit is terrible for true discussions.

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Almost all your questions and concerns are replied to in the Community FAQ: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Frequently-Asked-Questions.

As per normal evolution of forum threads everywhere, this thread has strayed far far away from original topic and includes so many differing conversations, I propose locking it or letting it die a quiet death. Nothing good, insightful or constructive here anymore. New conversations under their own threads, in appropriate categories, and all that.

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I do not participate in Reddit, so I can’t comment on this. But I do participate in https://forums.ubports.com/ and Stackoverflow, where expressing up- and down-votes is normal and helps to make things clear when rules and netiquette are broken, etc.

No.

However, as other posts have said, it is a two-edged sword.

I look for the same for many post in here

I’m not commenting on the technical aspects, I’m commenting on management. I’ve been in enough poorly managed companies to spot one a mile away. Again I’m not talking about progress or slowness of it but rather how it was MANAGED.

Which other company is better and is about to release a mass produced FSF-certified smartphone? My money is ready to be spent.

And yes, this thread should be closed.

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You are probably American, so I can’t really hold your ignorance of the subtleties of leftist politics against you, but I can’t just let this pass neither:
socialism is the democratic, non-oppressive version of communism;

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Please try to treat each other with respect.