Problem of Jolla is that they have to balance between ideology and reality, which is something communities don't have to take into account. Tablet is late 3rd time now and it's likely they have their hands full with that. So no resources for open sourcing, or we won't have Tablet even for Christmas. But who cares about products, we want the code!

It doesn't really matter if people are displeased for real reason or not. What matters is how it shapes the attitudes in community in general and IMO Jolla had an uphill battle on that front since from the beginning. If even good intentions are turned against them on first opportunity, I do not see how anything related to "having real reason" or "not having a real reason" makes any difference anymore. After all, humans are not that rational beings. It's like buying a car - choice is made by emotion and "rational" reasoning is invented afterwards... :P

Symbian was outdated, but still, open sourcing it didn't help a bit. It was primarily Nokia project, developed with Nokia funding for Nokia products and died instantly when Nokia ditched it. Anyway, I have hard time accepting your argument about Jolla losing devs because not everything is open at this very moment, as there are not many contributions even to those parts that are open and require attention. We hear constant crying about browser hoggin up memory, but yet, only couple devs contribute to it. Being that way, I'm not daydreaming about everything suddenly turning better just by open sourcing more. Like it or not, world is run by money and without it there won't be relevant development towards consumer grade products.