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Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)

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[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From what I’ve read and listened to, they’re misleading in this report when they say all crowdfunding backer devices have been fulfilled/delivered.

[–] benneti@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As someone who requested a refund, I can confirm to have neither the phone nor the refund :(

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel that pain, but probably not to the same degree. I've backed over 300 campaigns on Kickstarter and Gamefound. I've had around 8 that didn't fulfill and didn't give a refund -- somewhere in the vicinity of $500-800 worth overall. It's maddening when it feels like our money was either stolen or at best, wasted.

[–] benneti@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, i kinda only ordered it to support mobile Linux development, however, by now I think there would have been much better places to do this than this company.

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry you're having to deal with that -- especially for a technology we'd all like to see in that space to provide good competition to the main two. Thanks for your efforts to push that forward!