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Re: A challenge for community to go beyond what's already rule
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Yoni Rabkin |
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Re: A challenge for community to go beyond what's already rule |
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Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:03:52 -0500 |
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thiago@softwarelivre.net.br writes:
> Hey there!
>
> Although I do support this kind of initiative (of new Libreboot laptop
> stores), and I am a supporter of libreboot / coreboot as well as Free
> Libre / Open Source Hardware, I would like to ask you all here:
>
> Couldn't we have more popular prices? What do we have to do to boost
> more popular projects?
>
> I mean, it's awesome the new store, but after opening it, I felt the
> same disappointment from before. I still wait for more popular & fair
> options. Who can & will pay for a retro with such prices? I can't, so
> seeing such stores feels like a distant dream.
>
> I am from a foreign country, with its money devalued in comparison to
> your currencies. These prices are for rich gringos, for your own people
> and not for a broader community. I will never have the chance to get a
> Librebooted ThinkPad from any of the sellers I know (and I would like
> to support you) simply because it becomes too expensive. I bet there
> are lots of young (or older) free software/hardware enthusiasts fom the
> UK that can't pay for these laptops, and no relativisms can make such
> prices seem fair.
>
> The community, I guess, lacks very much options for getting popular
> Librebooted ThinkPads. How to help expanding free software and hardware
> in scenarios like this? These prices are over, so we will never support
> your stores because we can't. We can just try to do it ourselves,
> paying fair prices getting used pieces (just as yours) from people that
> doesn't know that there are companies selling it for much more because
> it is "libreboot".
>
> Even when it comes to offering the service of installing Libreboot or
> whatever, I just see obscene prices. I buy a compatible ThinkPad with
> less than you (several stores) want to charge just for the service.
>
> Where are we going? Do we want to make things more popular and make the
> whole strong, or do we want a small community of FSF members and
> Librebooted laptop owners?!
The prices Leah lists are fair.
Please remember that when you see a "cheap" price of a laptop somewhere
it is because that corporation is subjugating people to bring that price
down; the people who built that laptop do not partake in the profits. An
inexpensive and shiny new laptop is just the vanguard of an oppressive
system, or a rich corporation/government giving out "charity" in order
to gain control over people. Please don't compare Leah's prices to
those.
I realize that this explains the situation but does nothing to solve
it. This is because what you are pointing out is the broader problem of
world-wide income inequality. I can't solve that problem, and neither
can Leah, but Leah is not making it any worse by offering services to
some.
I agree that the situation as a whole is ugly and unfair. But I don't
want blame apportioned to people who are doing good.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
- Re: RetroFreedom.com webshop launched. Libreboot laptops with Trisquel GNU+Linux, (continued)
Re: A challenge for community to go beyond what's already rule,
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Re: A challenge for community to go beyond what's already rule, Jean Louis, 2020/11/23