Thread: Jolla - alike, or how Jolla adopted the Google's anti-open-source practices.
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2018-02-07 , 15:24
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#26
Originally Posted by r0kk3rz View Post
You know quite a large part of the 'proprietary closed source' Silica UI is stored in plain text qml files on the device, which you can inspect at your leisure. Which is how we can do things like patch manager
Sure, that's definitely an improvement over a closed source & immutable UI and already enables a lot of stuff via patches.

But without an open license and a functioning upstream, the ammount of contributions the community can do in the UI is limitted, as well as the ammount of people benefiting from the improvements (not everyone is using patches). Not to mention the (understandable) issues with patches no longer applying if the UI files change.

Also there is the issue of depriving related projects, such as Nemo, from useful code and libraries they could use, test, improve and build upon.
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