Credit: Purism/CrowdSupply
“The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. Every other consumer-grade laptop you can purchase comes with an operating system that includes suspect, proprietary software, and there’s no way for you to know what that software does.” — Purism
CrowdSupply crowd funding page at:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
Funding ends: Jan 31, 2015 at 11:59pm PDT
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