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2012-10-07 , 01:58
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Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
What worries me, that Mer is already set up as a base for OEMs and vendors. If Sailfish will take that role - won't it cause a confusion and more fragmented situation? I.e. if Mer is a common platform for Mer deriatives, it's easier to target all of them. If Sailfish will become its own "common ground", won't it obscure Mer role for vendors? It really requires a clear explanation.
If Sailfish and/or Mer are set up as "walled gardens" just like iOS / Android / WP, then yes, that will be a problem. But if they follow the same pattern that normal Linux distributions do, then no, it shouldn't be. I have one of my Linux boxes running Fedora, and another running Arch (and I've had a Ubuntu box up from time to time). Each distribution has its own quirks, but I can run the same copy of, say, Firefox on each one without any trouble.

Fragmentation occurs because vendors try to create fragmentation; they feel it improves their bottom line. We'll have to see just how open the licensees of Sailfish feel they can be...