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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
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.
I think you mixed free and open software. They do make money on services, how those services are good or bad for you is different question. But you are not forced to use it, you can just use what you want, change it to your needs, fork and adapt for your needs. but if they use opensource it doesn't mean they would develop exactly for your HW or your needs and if you want to influence, you need to pay and is logical. But it is not related if it's opensource or not, as for support/service/configuration/installation/adaptation you always pay and if not to them, to someone to do it for you(of cause is case you do not know how to do it yourself).
But on other side you have a choice to do it yourself and even share with other people (check how it was with maemo and n900, how many patches, rewrites, hacks and things were done by common people here in this same forum)
So getting paid for services is not related to being or not opensource, at the end they need to have income.
And jolla is not most opensource friendly and hackable friendly as far as i see it.
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