They mislead people into thinking that it's an open hardware device and ignore the many serious privacy and serious issues with their product. They spread tons of misinformation about other products and open source projects including GrapheneOS and have done substantial harm.
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GrapheneOS has spent years since we started in 2014 looking for hardware partners interested in making private and secure devices rather than focusing on branding/marketing and producing something significantly worse than iPhone or Pixel which are still leagues ahead of everyone.
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Purism's marketing deliberately misleads people with tons of weasel wording and outright false claims. They have a lot of people convinced they make open hardware or that they have open firmware. They offer something far less private and secure in many ways but cover it all up.
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Purism and many companies with similarly misleading marketing have made it much harder for companies interested in producing more private, more secure and more open devices. It's a crowded space and yet very few people are actually trying to do these things instead of pretending.
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Purism was never interested in addressing our concerns and making a device we could consider supporting. They did want us to lend them our branding so they could claim to be partnered with us without them actually doing anything. Their recent behavior has pretty telling too.
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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak () and others take offense to us explaining to our users in detail why we can't support their hardware. We can't support hardware that's a huge step backwards for hardware and firmware security with a bunch of security features the OS requires missing.
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has personally participated in libel and bullying targeting me in retaliation for explaining our reasoning within our community. Has repeated tried to frame me as a liar and jumped into ongoing bullying/harassment trying to push the baseless claim that I'm delusional/crazy.
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Some people don't like what I have to say based on my research and expertise on these topics. Has turned into non-stop daily harassment and libel from a couple organizations and their communities (CalyxOS, Purism). They like to pretend they aren't involved but they very much are.
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Has been on a particular focus since early 2021 on trying to claim that I'm delusional/crazy. Lots of fabricated stories and other libel too. jumped into at least 1 Hacker News thread where that was happening to contribute to it. I'm sure Purism has nothing to say about it.
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There has also been a substantial focus on trying to portray threads like this where we're defending ourselves and explaining facts as us somehow being toxic. I think what's toxic is scamming people with BS marketing and supporting/participating in attacks on open source devs.
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I filed a complaint with GNOME about this with the form they offer for CoC violations. There was no response about it. Most organizations really don't seem to care if their community and developers spread misinformation about projects, libel targeting developers and beyond that.