And you need to look beyond just what Jolla is doing. For a project like Mer to be successful, they are going to need some corporate buy-in by someone at some point. If Jolla succeeds at what they are doing, it is going to benefit your desire for more open mobile OSs, because it benefits Mer.

That being said, how open or closed Jolla is going to be is still an open question. There are a lot of details that we just don't know right now. That being said, given the DNA of what Jolla is basing their work on, it is likely to be more open than any other mobile OS out there.

But, as long as we are talking about cell phones, the OSs are going to need to have the ability to be closed to a certain extent because that's what the carriers want. Doesn't mean we can't get around that limitation.