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and give NSA head start? they wouldn't need to infiltrate them then, no wai, drivers from samsung&dod are enough of a pain

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I'm not deep enough into the Sailfish dev. side of things to comment on how it compares to this (I know enough to suspect that it's probably nowhere near as transparent as this -assuming "this" is 100% correct), I'll let others who are comment in much more detail, ideally they've also had some involvement in UT.

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But, but, the Russian guy claimed the process would start in June and it'd all be open by the close of July with the release of 2.0 :-o The usual suspects here jumped in to claim that was the word of god, and non-committal statements (to the contrary) by Saarnio and others at Jolla ("info soon" / "not ready to talk about it") must surely be misunderstandings.

Does this mean we won't have a fully open OS by the end of this month? Some people here must be shocked at this turn of events.

I think you know very well what the answer is ...

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That's not what happened, I recall the exchange you had with szopin (IIIRC?), he didn't claim it was coming then, you suggested that's what the official company line was & he clarified what it really was (IIRC you refused to agree despite the interview with a co. rep. -not a gov't official- that he referenced); i.e. there's plans for a time-line, but no plans to release/announce it yet, but they hope to "soon". That's my vague recollection, I'll leave szopin/you to dig-up the actual exchange for the full detail. Yes their statement is -once again- vague as hell, but it's a confirmation at least that there's plans afoot for more opening, something they'd not said anything about for a very long time.

Well, I don't, which is why I'm asking for insights from more than just one user, ideally a user who happens to be an active dev in at least 1 of those 2 communities.

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on opennes in tizen you can read here:
https://lists.sailfishos.org/piperma...ne/006264.html

maybe some dev can confirm the UT praise, did not see that many praising it so far, some pink glasses?

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You don't know much about security, do you ? ;-)

(hint: Most security critical algorithms and libraries are public & open source and a target of a very strict pear review. Closed source components, which can't be reviewed in a similar way, are often considered untrusted by default.)

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MartinK just posted about a small number of issues. Forgotten already? There are many more.

If you choose to believe that's not how UT development works, fine. It's all in the open, though, so if you don't want to go and look, that's your prerogative.

Anyway, we go back to the point of people making excuses for Jolla on the basis that they aren't THAT bad compared with others (they are), but fail to find much defensible about their action / inaction itself.

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pear review...
yeah, problem is NSA has a hundred hackers to throw at it the instant it drops, peer review and audit can be performed with GRU help before dropping to the public, want to make those holes available to NSA first?

edit: just to be clear, not promoting security through obscurity, but open sourcing is not a remedy, you need to pay people to make proper audit (see truecrypt audit funding), NSA already has such people and they pay them monthly. Closed source can be secure, most banks use MS solutions and somehow it works, but yeah, once they open source go at it and find all the bugs

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I refer folks back to my most recent posts, they're very straight forward in what they're asking.
They're not asking for e.g.'s of no comms between active devs & jolla, that point was already addressed by martin.
My most recent posts had a different set of Qns, I'm not sure how that could be unclear to you.

THIS, some insights from those that've actually been heavily involved (ideally SF too), would be great.

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You don't know much about business, do you? ;-)

Most businesses do not trust anything "open-sorce" by default. Most businesses prefer other businesses supplying their solutions, including security. Most businesses' security implementation is closed source.

(And when I say "most", I mean, "from all the companies I have worked for in the past 25 years, 100%". Feel free to do the substitution in all cases the word "most" was used in the above paragraph.)

So, when you say "considered untrusted", please do not forget to specify *by whom*.

Also, sorry about the small OT diversion but since you've touched upon the topic of peer review...

• Somebody will do it.