Indeed. And, that is exactly why the folks at Jolla saw an opportunity here for a private company to make some money. There are lots of folks who want to see an alternative mobile OS, and the Mer core makes a fine base upon which to create that OS.

So Jolla has spent millions and created Sailfish. Their UI is both beautiful and usable, and I can understand why many people want to use it. But let me reiterate the important part: they spent millions to create Sailfish. I just see it as entirely selfish for people to ask Jolla to give away all that work for free.

I think it would be less selfish for folks here to agitate for Google to release the closed-source portions of Android, as Google can much more easily afford to do so than Jolla ever will...