Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
(12-06-2020, 06:11 AM)displacefish Wrote: if this was an option in the official store - even just an option; have the current $150 price point be still available - a lot more people might stop to think, "good point, do I want to support the development more?" (after all, supporting linux-on-phone is the primary reason to get a pinephone in the first place).
I don't think it is so simple. The Pinephone wiki has links to the development communities, so one could find their favorite developers and donate to them. If there was an option in the Pine64 store, they would have to make sure not a single OS is missing, which is a very hard task. Otherwise it will look unfair. Also they will have to manage the money transfer to them all...
(12-06-2020, 06:11 AM)displacefish Wrote: The Librem is significantly more expensive than even $250, and additionally they are doing their software completely in-house (as far as I'm aware), without any meaningful community participation. Like @Juergen said above, the voluntary community involvement is irreplaceable.
Purism definitely accept contributions from the community, both in the form of a pull requests and help with development of alternative operating systems. They upstream all their changes to the kernel and write posts about it regularly.