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JulmaHerra	2015-11-09 , 07:00
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Originally Posted by pichlo

IC. Thanks for the clarification, now I see where you are coming from. To clarify my stance, I was completely and consciously ignoring that bit because to the best of my knowledge, Sailfish comes from the same people as Harmattan. Not the same company, but the same people.

Partially true, Jolla was founded by people who worked with Harmattan, however, they were not the only ones who did. It's really not like the whole Harmattan-team decided to form Jolla and create Sailfish from open parts of MeeGo. Resources that were available at Nokia were also very different.

Jolla does not have to implement all the bells and whistles anew, only remember how they were implemented the first time and do it again, in those few cases where for copyright reasons they cannot use an already existing code.

Some may be done that way, some have evolved since and have to be implemented again. Also, some parts are controlled by 3rd parties and may contain requirements that Jolla is not willing to meet (ie. privacy), which kind of limits what they can do about it. Anyway, there's still much to be done and I do hope that the split between SW and HW-companies improve things on that part.