Purism unveils plans to build Librem 5, the world's first open smartphone ecosystem

I really hope that Librem5 will come a long way and succeed in the end. But that said; there is a lot of hurdles to be taken between a successful crowd-funding, making some mock-ups* and making, shipping and servicing an actual, working phone.

There is only so much wonders a group of people can perform at the same time. If Librem5 succeeds in their goals, with complete disregard for how the phone was made, it will already be very impressive. The same goes for Fairphone; you can’t win on all fronts at the same time.

That said, Fairphone and Librem are in contact to see how we can work together and bring a little more Librem spirit to the Fairphone and put some more fair into the Librem5.

*(ps. I am exaggerating a little here, I know that the Librem team has done much more already)

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