I was enthousiastic about Purism and was following their progress on making a new phone, the Librem 5. My interest in Purism has dropped to zero since it is an American company that can be forced to do whatever a president wants it to do. Yes, we need an alternative and it has to be one that is out of reach of the president of the USA to make sure that our investments keep their value.
We need an European company that steps up. Maybe in an Airbus styled way. Different countries different parts of the product.
Hardware, software and services. Working tightly together.
There's no guarantee that a European company won't do similar things. That's exactly the problem. Technology has to serve the people and not become weapons of governments under which they live.