There are people in places like China and Australia who also need to be considered.

Read through what was discussed in the last meeting to understand some of the issues that Jolla is facing with open sourcing everything. http://merproject.org/meetings/mer-m...15.00.log.html

A lot of criticism I've see has come from a black and white philosophy of open vs closed wheras the problems and solutions are somewhere in the middle with the community and Jolla having to tiptoe around components that Jolla themselves have licensed to use from 3rd parties. "necessary: location, android runtime, keyboard prediction - just to name examples"