Thread: First thoughts about the (pre) Sailfish OS 2.0
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2015-09-15 , 21:42
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#370
Originally Posted by MisterMaster View Post
For example aren't the documents and browser apps open-source? How many have contributed to those? 1(well maybe more?) guy for the documents and a few for the browser? Well I don't know how hard it is to contribute to those so that might be one reason if it is difficult.
There could be also network effect at play - even though the apps themselves might be open source, that does not mean you won't get blocked by issues in closed components you can't fix.

Take multi user chat (MUC) as an example - the backend (Telepathy) is open as is (IIRC) the accounts framework - it might both actually already support multi user chat or could be added by the community due to the respective components being open. But the chat application UI is closed source, so even if the backend supports it or community adds it to the UI the only one who can change the UI is Jolla...

This is probably why the Cyanide Tox client and the various whatswhatever cleints are standalone apps rather than nicely integrated parts of the built-in chat system.

And the situation around Sip support - community has done it's part and has been waiting for Jolla to make the necessary changes in the closed parts for months, citing:

As the community has pretty much exhausted their possibilities and done things in the open source parts of Sailfish, it's now up to Jolla to eventually hold their part of the bargain.
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