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telendram | 4 years ago

Why does it sound so much like a scam ?

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fmajid|4 years ago

Before anyone considers putting money there, they should read this interview by their former CTO. Sounds like a train wreck to me:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...

ianai|4 years ago

Reading that, I wonder whether a start up would have a better time offering OS/firmware support for already shipping, mass produced devices. i.e. Buy the latest XPS 15 and get to work making an installer that disables all the things they want to disable (intel ME off the top of mind). Doing similar with phone models, etc. I wonder whether this could be done for Windows drivers, for that matter.

fsflover|4 years ago

This is very outdated, with predictions not turned out to be correct. For instance, the most freedom-respecting smartphone on the market has been built.

AlexTWithBeard|4 years ago

Not sure about the scam, but my bayesian bullshit filter is triggered by the "unlike all the evil for-profit corporations, we're a white'n'fluffy company aiming for the greater good".

wly_cdgr|4 years ago

So what? You're investing to make money. For those purposes, it's much better for you if they are actually as bad or worse than any other company. Nobody makes big money actually respecting the principles they claim

wmf|4 years ago

If Purism was a scam VCs would be begging to invest. They're not evil enough to scam anyone (on purpose at least).

user764743|4 years ago

Because when you start digging behind the marketing at Purism a lot of what they say and do are often two different things.

fsflover|4 years ago

Any particular examples?

Jach|4 years ago

Given I've had a number of non-spammy emails from them wind up in gmail's spam that I've had to mark as not so, I was surprised when I got an email about this several days ago and it wasn't marked spam. I was really tempted to mark it as such...