Thread: Sailfish(Jolla): Ideas/Qns & Concerns/Criticisms
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ajalkane is offline ajalkane
2013-02-10 , 14:54
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#288
Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
* How much of ubuntus unity is stuff made by people outside Canonical? To me its seems halfclosed project already.
* Firefox has none intrests in Qt AFAIK.
* BB10 is most closed

SailfishOS and Ubuntu should coorperate but I doubt they will. Ubuntu has in history shown theyr not so intrested in coorperate with FOSS anymore. Just take a look at Gnome and KDE... Both ditched by Canonical in favour of unity...
But is Sailfish any different than Ubuntu in this regard? In fact, isn't Ubuntu better here. From all that's been read Sailfish core UI is closed source. Ubuntu's core UI might be developed mainly by Canonical, but from all that I've read it seems it will be open source.

On top of that to me they seem to try to engage the community more. For example https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPhone/CoreApps/

Of course much of Sailfish is still quite shrouded and could change. But to me, at the moment, Ubuntu seems more open source.

Personally I'm looking forward to both of them. At the moment I have more trust in Sailfish in understanding the mobile space better (ie. giving us developers better and more complete APIs), and in Ubuntu for more open source and community involment.

But all this can change as time passes. These are anyway the 2 mobile operating systems I'm looking forward to and I hope there will be some co-operation between them at least on QML components level.
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