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Launching the Libre Tech Shop

by proxygeek on 6/13/21, 5:37 AM with 13 comments

• by maccard on 6/14/21, 11:57 AM

  > Otherwise, direct bank transfers are a good and respectful option by default.

  Have you ever dealt with fraud at any reasonable amount of scale? This is an absolutely _terrible_ idea.

• by necovek on 6/14/21, 8:03 AM

  A marvelous initiative.

  However, it feels like this would be a struggle to keep up personally. Have you considered being hub instead, where others can announce their products, get paid for them while ensuring that customers get the support they need too?

• by neilv on 6/14/21, 1:24 PM

  There's an FSF program along these lines: https://ryf.fsf.org/

  Complying with their requirements could be a major headache (ask Purism), but if you're already satisfying all those, the certification and links might make business sense.

• by Clex on 6/14/21, 6:38 AM

  Great project! I'd suggest adding a <meta charset="UTF-8"> to the Mostly Harmless website to fix some mojibake that I ran into.

• by pcein on 6/14/21, 6:14 PM

  This is a really wonderful initiative! Best wishes for its success!

• by insaaniManav on 6/14/21, 7:14 AM

  Awesome work

• by patchtopic on 6/14/21, 11:18 AM

  great work guys!

• by Aissen on 6/14/21, 7:00 AM

  Anyone has an exemple of a libre hardware business that did launch in Silicon Valley ? Seems that the two are opposites.