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by woopwoop24 1133 days ago
Summary: With apologies for the delay, we are now preparing your Librem 5 to ship and need you to read this email carefully with replying until May 01, 2023.

i ordered mine on 14.10.2019

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It kind of gives the vibe of a kickstarter project that didn't implode, but instead... eventually got their product out the door and shipping to people.

I wonder what the people who run the company would do differently, a 2nd time around? That's if they'd be up for doing it again.

This interview with the former CTO was interesting, relevant quote:

> Entire group was on board with this (which was "no, we are not ready"), except Todd who just said that we are doing it in a month and we are starting one way or another that phone campaign.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

it really feels like, they should have been given just pure venture capital and a lot more time and test hardware in small batches. And then with enough knowledge pick real good hardware and then deliver a kick ass linux phone. The processor is about 6 years old, a lot will not be working at this time, i still support the idea of a linux phone, i really hope it gets better in the next few years. this android, ios duopoly really sucks ass