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[Israel Dahl <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is with sadness I must address the entire list.  I know this is 
usually quiet, but there are two things I must announce and have spent a 
lot of time weighing it.

ToriOS will no longer be based on Debian/Ubuntu only.  We will look to a 
broader adoption of our programs for the time being, when the current 
generation are completed.

The long term goal of our small team is unchanged.  We just don't have 
many resources :D  We will support low end hardware, and as phones 
become the main computing device I would like to write code that runs on 
both.  Currently FLTK works on Android, so our programs could be 
modified to run in that environment as well, though that would not be my 
immediate goal.

As you may know GNU/Linux mobile is a reality.  We can help low end 
hardware be reused in that arena as well.  As always this means less 
pollution, less waste and most importantly poor people get better, more 
usable devices than they could otherwise.

I think a shift to software will help give us potential to attract 
anyone else who wants to help in that area.  It is hard doing everything 
by yourself, and takes a long time when you have a real life XD


This is the more upsetting second announcement.

I can in no way endorse the use of anything related to Purism at any 
point for anyone.  They have poorly handled their mistakes and further 
botched it through customer service failures, failures of the CEO, and 
even other "high up" people there.  I would rather not clutter your 
inbox with more of my story, so just know that I will never buy their 
products and will actively promote people choosing better products like 
the Pinephone.  It has a fully open, non-proprietary model of inclusion, 
which makes it much more inline with our libre software goals of 
including everyone. Purism has the opposite model, one that looks very 
much like Apple does with their BSD OS where users are customers and not 
people. By contrast Pine64 is even working towards RISC-V architecture 
as the future of open mobile computing!  Pinephones are not only real 
usable devices, but affordable for many people when compared to the 
speculative high priced Purism product.

This is the end of my unfortunate rant against a company that does not 
value their customer base.

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