Sorry, my fault, I did not make myself clear. Got distracted by all the talk about the browser, but the browser is only circumstantial to the topic at hand.

Yes, Open Source is all the things you say. But, at least for some people, it is also an ideology. For many people it is predominantly ideology. And that is the crux of the matter.

Jolla is attempting an admirable thing. They are trying to make a product out of Open Source software. Many have tried but so far nobody has succeeded. Because ideology and business do not mix.

You may start dropping big names to prove me wrong but when you look deeper, none of those has managed to turn the Open Source software into a product. The actual product is always something else, with OSS being there just by the way. Google? Their product is big data management. Canonical, Novell, Sun etc? Their product is the service. All those firms making embedded systems running Linux in some form or another? Their product is of course the black (white, blue, silver, yellow...) box. Not the software.

Now Jolla is trying to change that. Good for them, they have my full admiration. I would not have the guts to do that. BUT - and this is what I was trying to convey right at the beginning - to achieve that, this "there is tbe source, stop moaning and fix it yourself" attitude has to change. Because customers want to buy a product, not a DIY kit.