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pango	2014-08-28 , 17:59
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Originally Posted by Morpog

Well, you may have forgot about it. Jolla is a small startup. They can't easily take drawbacks like Nokia, Samsung, HTC can (especially Nokia ). They don't have billions of dolars of cash lying around. They were a bit in panic it seems and wanted to have a perfect start. It's still business after all.

You people should concentrate less on the PR. You can see and feel the openess of Jolla on IRC, and the open source parts of MER, Nemomobile, SailfishOS repos and upstream stuff like Qt. Even TJC has some bits of open feeling. Why nobody sees that? Do you get that anywhere else? And no, yearly codedrops don't count.

I agree they probably have been panicking and have been trying to look perfect and thus forgot about how much trust transparency can build even through tough times - and reverse, how quickly trust erodes when transparency is lacking. I'm suggesting they not be so afraid of looking a little more rough, but also a little more open and honest in the process. I think their public image would improve.

I guess you can feel the openness of Jolla on IRC when they are not kicking or blocking you?

But I do agree, aside from certain surprising non-open components (that actually make Sailfish a less open alternative than some), Jolla is quite an OK FOSS citizen. I think their participation mostly in FOSS stuff is OK.