Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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2012-07-12 , 05:45
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Originally Posted by specc View Post
To me this starts looking fishy. Open source project should not be shrouded in secrecy like everything about Jolla. Just saying.

What about ecosystem? Apps, services? A fully open system using the web for most of the services I understand, but from what I gather of information, they are headed elsewhere.

Way too much confusion talk by Jolla to be taken seriously at this time.
This is just my personal opinion:

That's understandable - and I actually wish that people had healthy scepticism about general consumer products. There's absolutely nothing normal about the way this is launched - but it seems to have worked quite well so far.

From Jolla point of view, from latest interview:

Jussi: Our principle is that we are careful, so we don’t want to promise anything that we can not do. This is why at the moment we just said we will reveal a phone later this year.

What exists right now and is clear:
* Mer, the Core of "Jolla OS" is open, available for contribution or even use by other projects or vendors.
* Jolla OS is based on Mer and Qt.

I'm not exactly sure where it says that Jolla itself is a open source project, but for exact details of open source, please stay tuned.

We all saw how open source projects can launch in the completely wrong way (MeeGo, Tizen), so it's important to have exact information when you do.
Last edited by Stskeeps; 2012-07-12 at 05:49.