Thelio – System76
This site is full of misleading or false claims.<p>>Open hardware licensed to give you rights<p>>Thelio, Thelio Major, Thelio Massive, and Thelio Io are >OSHWA certified open source >hardware.<p>The case might be. The mainboard, i.e. <i>the actual computer</i>, sure as hell isn't. Insofar that they're selling "Thelio" as a computer, a reasonable person would interpret this to mean the computer with all parts therein as sold, for which this statement is wholly false. As for the mainboard, my understanding is that it's both designed and manufactured by Gigabyte outside of the US, and the schematics aren't theirs to give.<p>>Designed and Manufactured in Colorado<p>>US-sourced wood and aluminum are formed, finished, etched, and built by artisans in our >Denver, Colorado factory. Premium components from around the world are then assembled to >your final specifications.<p>The case might be. The mainboard certainly isn't. "Premium components from around the world are then assembled to your final specifications." is pretty ambiguous. I wouldn't normally consider a mainboard a "component", it <i>is</i> the damn thing. This is at best highly misleading.<p>Moreover, according to [1], the company is "chipping away at the proprietary bits until it's 100% open source." This is, like Purism, stating vague ambitions which cannot plausibly ever be achieved; Intel and AMD platforms will never be blob-free.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/system76-announces-american-made-desktop-pc-open-source-parts" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/system76-announces-amer...</a>