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Originally Posted by JulmaHerra View Post
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.
That the exact point that the talks about open and community and opensource is from before release of the phone, but they are not here. And sure there are always people that would be displeased. The question is there real reason for that or not
Btw Symbian was killed not only because of that, but because it was too outdated at the moment(should they opensource earlier when they have devs)+ Elop.
Maybe the problem of Jolla is that they lose devs and do not gain new is because they still did not opensource, did you think of that?
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