At first, it appeared Purism wouldn't make its $1.5-million goal. The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign staggered forward at first. Them, when KDE and then GNOME threw their support behind the project, the project picked up steam.'
I do hope it succeeds, but I cannot see what Purism are offering that Firefox OS or Ubuntu Touch didn't offer. Both of them use the Linux kernel, and had millions of dollars to throw at the project too.
Timing might be just a bit better this time round.... Firefox OS was aimed at low cost phones with razor thin margins, Ubuntu Touch was aimed at higher specs and probably a bit too early for the phone manufacturing to be so commoditized as it is nowadays. Fingers crossed that it works. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/