As I said in my previous reply to Copernicus, open sourcing as last desperate attempt to save a dying platform almost never works. This example is how another company took the code and adapted it to completely different product than WebOS was designed in the beginning. To counter one single example of not-entirely-failed open sourcing there are numerous other attempts that failed (ie. Symbian). Without companies to back up development, communities rarely can run development very far.

If WebOS was open source from the very beginning, the situation might be much better in that regard. Which is why I do hope Jolla open sources as much as they can, though I don't believe that anything they do improves relations with community anymore.