federal reverse

It’s quite explicitly a phone for people who are either ideologically behind the project, aren’t afraid of tinkering, and have a bunch of disposable income.

You do realize that the Librem 5 has been out since … checks Wikipedia … September honking 2019.

Doesn’t have anything to do with Linux–software and hardware development are immensely expensive. Software usually being free and hardware cheap has everything to do with scale and easy replication.

Unlike most everyone else, Purism is trying the organic-funding model rather than the VC unicorn sellout rollercoaster. I use a phone with Calyx which is free but the only reason it can be free, is free is that Google is doing 99% of the work. Purism is bringing Gnome to a phone, so they only get 95% for free which completely tips off the balance. (The numbers are invented but they’re only here for illustrative purposes anyway.)

None of this is to say that I would ever buy their phone because for all intensive purposes, it sucks.

The Loch Ness monster.

Trickle-sideways economics.

I think GNOME Software uses some fwupd library rather than the straight-up command-line fwupdmgr, but yeah, basically.

It’s in the firmware category, i.e. it comes from LVFS. It’s neither a Flatpak nor a DEB/RPM/… package. Many of these, I believe are actually exe files for DOS (happy to be corrected on this, it’s a while since I last read Richard Hughes’s blog).

Iirc, GNOME Software is plug-in-based and the Flatpak plug-in is just one of the plug-ins.

Oh, not just Russians, anyone with “Russian blood”. This is probably the clearest case of racism I’ve seen on this site.

Or did they change that?

No