Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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zimon is offline zimon
2013-10-05 , 10:53
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#3119
Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
If they don't find anyone to license it to they might find themselves in a position where they have no choice but release it fully open
Getting and oneself flashing Sailfish OS i.e. to Galaxy Note3 would be great, but I wonder from where Jolla then makes the money?

Maybe just FOSS all the way the lower parts of OS, but Window manager (launcher), ACL and few essential apps then could (should) be bought from Jolla. At least in the start there wouldn't be FOSS alternatives for those and if Jolla has made them well, why not pay for them.

http://blog.gsmarena.com/jolla-annou...roid-apps-too/
It’s also not clear if Jolla will be offering Sailfish to makers only or if users will get to flash their Android devices too, a la CyanogenMod. (or Replicant)
What it comes to multitasking, I find it hard to accept Jolla could claim to have the best multitasking experience, compared to Note3 for example. And because Android devices can run Qt-apps as well, there is several complicated choices to be made for the heavy user of mobile devices. (The best choice to be PRISM/NSA-free would be Replicant.)

The things I am missing in SGS3, SGS4, Note3, other_top_android_phones_and_tablets; is mainline Linux, POSIX/GNU software libraries and X/Wayland. Jolla's first device fails elsewhere but would have those in Sailfish.
So I could pay for an option to have Sailfish, Silica UI, ACL and the basic GUI system apps to be myself flashed to a Note3. But then again, with 3 GB RAM in Note3, I could just have Fedora LXDE installed with chroot.