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  • lol.

    Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

    I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

    All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

    Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

    Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

    Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

    Customer pays

    Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

    Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

    There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.














  • Completely abandoned their original hobbyist customer base and sent all their inventory to B2B sales channels and scalpers for several years.

    And now that they’re finally providing B2C vendors with stock, they’ve jacked up the prices by 100% to 300%.

    Don’t forget the Raspberry Pi foundation was supposed to be a nonprofit and the only reason they’re the premier SBC is the community. Other boards have better specs, at a better price, with better features. The community support, the hobbyists, are the primary reason why they are what they are.

    That’s just one bad action, but their had been plenty others recently. Some other comments here have provided information you should read, such as hiring police officers who specialized in using Pi’s for surveillance…





  • Everything is still FOSS.

    HOWEVER, they are no longer dumping the 1:1 RHEL source code. So the changes to RHEL will still be available, but freeloading for-profit projects will have to locate and integrate the packages separately and at their own time and expense i.e Alma, Scientific, etc.

    Basically certain companies would sell their cheaper RHEL clones on the promise that they were “bug for bug compatible” with RHEL, but cost a lot less overall, because they weren’t shouldering any development costs.