Probably the most egregious behaviour is declaring different terms and conditions for sales and pre-orders after a person has handed over their money, particularly changing the terms around refunds. Literal Vader “pray I do not alter it any further”. And illegal. Refunds in general have been a nightmare for customers with many making a complaint to the Attorney General of California which seems to have been the only way to get money back.

Check r/purism on Reddit if you want to see lots of examples of their shady behaviour.

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

And: https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1

Shady company

If you ask in earnest, you’ll get good responses.

This is not the case. Every time I’ve asked in earnest, I’ve faced mobs of lunatics.

I’ve always tried to make the most out of free tools, so I’ve used a lot of FOSS tools for game development before.

I take it you’ll be giving back to the community and releasing your game under a libre license then?

No.

Evangelical in that it’s documented as a theory & a paper for the concepts you can read about?

No, evangelical as in needing to tell people about it, even when they have no interest.

Have you worked in a distributed team sharing just patches over email?

No.

The Patch Theory

The way you write about this seems very evangelical.

patches, without depending patches that would cause a conflict, should commute

get stuck in their rebases/pulls

I use git every day and I don’t recall patch ordering ever being a problem.

The two big contenders are Darcs … Darcs … has some performance issues (where some of the old perf issues are fixed, some remain)

If Darcs has performance issues, how is it better than git?

Git is not the best DVCS

What would you suggest is a better DVCS than git?

for a “crypto powered” portable console

PlaytronOS wasn’t made for this device.

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Nice one, thanks

No.

Could you tell me which labs? Are they local to you?

had the mains water analysed for chemical and biological contamination

Can I ask how you go about doing that? I may want to test some water soon.

Have a scan through the posts in https://reddit.com/r/purism

Shady company.

ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n

Where did you hear about this? It sounds suspiciously like someone misremembered the following incident where there was no malice or even intent, just incompetence and happenstance:

Children’s snack recalled after its website caught serving porn

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This has nothing to do with open source games.