Thread: Community saving Jolla and Sailfish OS ?
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2015-12-07 , 13:11
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Originally Posted by Zeta View Post
On one side, you say you need millions to do it, on the other side you want a bunch of TMOers to do it by themselves on their free time.
Hmm. On the one side, you say you want a full-featured, consistent UI that is immediately usable as a daily driver. On the other side, you say you don't want to pay for it (either with money or with effort). This seems illogical to me. Asking Jolla, who did put in the money and the effort, to hand over their results for free seems utterly selfish.

Every big OSS project that succeed was backed by a company (Red Hat, SUN, Trolltech/Nokia/Digia, ...).
Er, hello, Linux? You know, the OS that was developed by a guy in his free time, and gained success pretty much all by itself?

Of course, it started out as a very minimalist OS. It only slowly grew into a full-featured, consistent operating system over years of effort.

If that backing company is not Sailfish, you have to find another one.
And yes, I'm sure lots of companies will come flocking to give away their millions of dollars and years of man-effort.

Or maybe the missing part is less work than I think and 10 people can do it in their free time?
The "missing part"? Just how much do you think is missing? Everybody here seems to want an enormous, full-featured UI such as iOS and Android have. Yes, UIs like theirs have been built on the backs of thousands of programmers and billions of invested dollars. Yes, you probably aren't going to get that in the Open Source world. Is that such a bad thing?

And about the consistency : it is hugely needed as it is directly correlated to usability.
Honestly, if folks here know exactly what they want in a UI, and they understand how such a UI is built, and they have any sort of programming skills at all, why are they not building their own UI? If you're just planning to sit and wait for someone else to do it for you, I just don't understand why you're not willing to pay Apple or Google for their efforts...
 

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