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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
I wonder if us linux fans are allergic to success... I feel that if ever something that we like becomes at least a little bit successful we start to hate it.

And you know what? It may well be that to become successful you have to abandon some of the practices that we like, like being very community based and open-only and such things. So in part I understand it. On the other hand however, with things as they are today, you can't create a community phone. You need a commercial entity to back it, closed drivers and all that jazz.

It can be done only two ways: either from companies like jolla or canonical (who try to compete by either closing down UI or using their brand power) or as a fringe project by a behemoth like Nokia and Samsung, who might pour money for the sake of RnD, and be happy with a niche, because they make tons of money elsewhere.

Neither is optimal or what we ultimately want, but in a world where linux mobile has less than 1% (android is excluded for obvious reasons) I don't think we can afford to not support all the efforts even if they are not ideal.
Thing is I am allergic about copycats. and the decission going theyr own route with MiR hurts Linux overall hard and only winner on it is Canonical. RedHat, Jolla, OpenSuse and so on loose on it and especcially when it comes to commercial apps and GFX drivers etc... that probadly will only support ubuntu in the future
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Last edited by mikecomputing; 2013-07-22 at 19:28.
 

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