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jalyst	2013-07-18 , 03:56
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Originally Posted by shmerl

OK, Stskeeps said that so far it's closed (UI and core applications) but what's going to be in the future isn't known. I take it, that with the release the stuff will be closed, which is sad. So Firefox OS will present itself with fully open stack, and Sailfish will be at a disadvantage.

This makes no sense, they had said the following (not verbatim) only a few mths back:
"Silica is open, only thing to be closed is most core/stock apps, some of those have proprietary code borrowed from elsewhere (e.g. aliendalvik), others don't.
But we wish to keep them closed so that we can license our flavour of Sailfish."

It absolutely confounds me that they're now saying that the entire uppermost layer is closed, at least for foreseeable future.
I'd been suspecting for some time that they were moving this way, it's silly, their original plan of having 2 versions of Sailfish made way more sense.
I'm very disappointed about this....

Last edited by jalyst; 2013-07-18 at 15:53. Reason: typo