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MartinK is offline MartinK
2015-12-01 , 16:03
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
What random parts of Mer / Nemo are closed?
Sorry for not being clear - I was responding from the point of view of fixing things in Sailfish OS.

Of course, you can fix everything in Mer/Nemo - if your are brave enough to be running it somewhere separately from Sailfish Os given it's current state...

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
And why would Mer / Nemo (again, 100% open source) have a serious overall lack of documentation? Shouldn't being open-source have fixed that by now?
If someone was using it appart from being a chassis for Sailfish OS, then yes. But thats again the problem - no one (AFAIK) is really using Mer/Nemo for anything other than Jolla for Sailfish OS. And Jolla developers understandably have (at least currently) other priorities than to write docs or don't really feel the immediate need to do so as they probably know the given systems in-and-out.

I'm sure that even Nemo Mobile was in a more usable shape as an open mobile distro the docs situation (among other things) would be better off.

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Yes, absolutely! After spending millions of dollars, Jolla has built quite a nice UI on top of Mer. The problem is, those millions of dollars were not charity money. Maybe the investors will be willing to just throw away those millions of dollars and walk away, but I kind of doubt it.
It would not be the first time such thing happened. (actually reading the history of Blender, it seems to be strangle similar to the Jolla/Sailfish one so far)

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Great. So, you're saying that open-source contributions can really only work at the tail end of a project, for (say) maintenance and small incremental work. Hurrah for open-source!
No, I'm saying that people are much more likely to contribute to something they can actually use themselves. That's all.
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