Just as a info, they are a Clevo reseller: https://linustechtips.com/topic/802163-clevo-custom-laptops-and-world-clevo-resellers/#comment-10086025

That probably also applies to a lot of other small size linux laptop companies that are not doing a lot of custom stuff in their laptops.

No publicity is bad publicity I guess?

The whole company is just the one guy. He obviously has mental health issues.

I like how they take a moral stance against Apple and Google, but then proudly display Boeing and the US Air Force as customers.

If they have the ability to accurately detect/enforce any of that, I'd be way more impressed with their fingerprinting techniques than any of the hardware they're selling

In the modern parlance, i believe that counts as an OEM but the more accurate term that no one uses is probably a VAR

...FW16 is a great Linux machine. It also had CAD drawings available that have been allowing me to sketch out possible physical modifications. It also has a PCIe 4.0 x4 available for either the GPU they sell or any other device that I decide to make.

What specifically about Framework do you think is a scam? I'd genuinely like to know since that's been the opposite of my experience.

You can buy better hardware for cheaper prices.

Framework exists to take advantage of naive people who are just trying to fit in with strangers on the internet.

You can indeed but better hardware for many purposes for cheaper.

Want a gaming laptop? Or a runs Linux out of the box laptop? FW is not even close to the best value there.

Want a laptop with well-documented physical specs, including CAD drawings to make readily modifiable and upgradeable, potentially being the last laptop chassis that one needs to buy? Nothing else comes close to touching FW.

I avoid ads, so, maybe they're inappropriately marketing as gaming laptops. I'd not call that a scam but would say that it's ethically questionable, at best. FW is a laptop for people prioritizing long-term repairability and tinkering over everything else.

Skikk is a clevo reseller too. Those laptops are very nice. They do however sound like a jet engine when the game starts. But I just turn the volume up higher and then I don't hear it anymore.

Google apple and reddit must have really pissed them off to include this in their terms.

but, he doesn't like it, so it's a scam. it's not enough just to not buy it, he has to bitch about it and save the world from this evil, malignant company selling extremely customizable Linux laptops with versatile expansion options.