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

just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2

How is this company still in business

Uhh…

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?

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

Shady company.

your work sees all your browser history

Possibly, if they’ve bothered to configure their machines that way. And only on the browsers they’ve configured that way and only on their machines.

Also, please don’t assume that your work operates the same way as everyone else’s work.