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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 5, 2019 — Purism begins its iterative shipping schedule for the much anticipated Librem 5 phone running PureOS.
The Librem 5 phone is built from the ground up to respect the privacy, security, and freedoms of society. It is a revolutionary approach to solving the issues that people face today around data exploitation — putting people in control of their own digital lives.
Due to the high volume, growing demand for the Librem 5, and in the interest of openness and transparency, Purism is publishing its full, detailed, iterative shipping schedule. This expands on the existing commitment to start shipping in Q3 by defining specific batches, their features, and their corresponding ship dates.
Most companies keep their release and product plans secret right up until mass production launch, so they can avoid publicizing any setbacks or delays; but we have decided to bring our community and customers along with us for the Librem 5 journey, and have been transparent about our progress from the beginning. This means you have been able to celebrate along with us as we have reached milestones like shipping our devkit in 2018, the NXP CPU silicon issues we had to overcome, placing our first call in early 2019, sending our first SMS. You have been able to track our software progress directly from our public code repositories and watch live updates to libhandy, Phosh, Chatty, and the rest of our software. And we are compliant with, and submitting for, the "Respects Your Freedom" certification from the Free Software Foundation.
The iteration schedule starts in September, 2019, and the Librem 5 will be shipping in batches with incrementing code names. Each iteration improves upon the prior in a rapid rolling release throughout the entire first version of the phone, including the public plans for the second revision of the phone for context.
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 09 2019, @05:04AM (2 children)
Sir please show your geek card so it can be revoked.
Librem and fairphones are possibly frauds and possibly the equivalent of a manual transmission car in a world of automatic transmissions. The equivalent of the first teslas.
Now, were you complaining when we talked about teslas or spacex ?
yes, but only because you as a proper left leaning caryatid complain about everything, but no, not about slashvertisement in particular.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday September 09 2019, @07:20AM (1 child)
I have millennia of experience, so I am able to spot scams from vast distances. Nothing bothers those of us who understand technology than the marketeers who try to make money off of it. This is why janrinok has no cred as an editor. STEM, oh, yes, STEM, which means things that capitalists can make money off of, while screwing over the youth who may have some actual interest, but are denied the liberal arts education to be able to prevent them from being scammed by scammers like this.
I would complain more about a closed-source proprietary soylentvertisment, but we have not had many recently, and the usually involve gold, survival rations, or Soylent Green, which we do not do.
Did you invest in SpaceX? Or Tesla? Might be a good deal. Or hype and pump and dump, like Trump and Drumpf with the Golf Course in Scotland [slate.com], which only survives on Air Force discretionary expenditures.
And you are a Bot, which means no longp-term memory, or context detection. And evidently, you are a Christian Bot, which means you are going to hell as soon as your circuits cease. Sorry about that, Bots do not go to heaven. And duplicitous ones like yourself, well, there is no hope. You are going to hell. Probably one of Hazuki's hells, and she is rather imaginative. So no Librem for me or thee. May the Goddess have mercy on your stuff.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday September 09 2019, @10:31AM
Non sequiturs ad nauseam. For instance the fact that it might be a scam makes a release announcement more newsworthy, not less. But if course, censorship is Soo ingrained in sinistrorsibus mentibus nowadays.
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