Among other things. My first question was, is the hardware open? Couldn't find an answer to that.
Edit: Apparently revision 2 of Purism will possibly have Coreboot.
Among other things. My first question was, is the hardware open? Couldn't find an answer to that.
Edit: Apparently revision 2 of Purism will possibly have Coreboot.
The graphics chip needs proprietary, binary firmware blobs.
The ethernet chip needs proprietary, binary firmware blobs.
The BIOS is a proprietary, binary firmware blob.
"Respects your freedom" my ass. The only difference to a whitebox laptop is marketing. Dell's or Lenovo's linux offerings are just as "free".
(And chromebooks with Coreboot are, technically, more free than both.)
Since they're not at all transparent on the details about how they will actually achieve true Freedom on modern hardware, and since modern hardware IP is deeply entangled in patent and licensing issues, it's reasonable to be high skeptical of what's going on here.
Then again it can all be a scam which would render anything I just said irrelevant anyway.