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Jolla - alike, or how Jolla adopted the Google's anti-open-source practices.
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JaechenLi
2018-02-04 , 09:35
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I lurked without an account for some time to see if Sailfish is worth my interest. It seems to me that it's just another walled garden.
Post-Google-Play-Services Google is often depicted as a murderer of open-source. This article, from 2013, describes it more than enough, so I'll restrain from summarizing it:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...ans-necessary/
Now notice the similarities between the Google's and Jolla's approach.
Do you remember the Nemo Mobile applications? Nemo had it's own, open-source e-mail client.
https://github.com/nemomobile/qmlmail
Jolla completely stopped the development of the open-source client in 2013 and locked people into their proprietary one.
The same holds for text input - Jolla has proprietary tx9 repository (or something like this) for anything more than a simple virtual qwerty. Now just wait until Jolla includes a backdoor there, uploading what you type to some Chinese server...
Just my two cents.
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