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2017-10-03 , 19:40
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#1097
Originally Posted by bennypr0fane View Post
Do you honestly believe that SFOS can survive without Jolla?
If Jolla goes under, SF might not go under immediately, but it will fall so far behind in development that it can't stand a Chance against Corporate solutions anymore.
As a reference, see Palm webOS / HP webOS / OpenWebOs / LunaOS, now that :
- Palm got bought by HP
- HP (who was still a little bit community friendly) decided to drop the ball on webOS
- LG who bought webOS from HP are only using it for their TV and do not help any community in any way.
- LunaOS community devs are basically on their own (and are in the middle of a huge port from HTML5/Javascript webapps to QML/Javascript apps).

The thing is progressing the pace of a glacier.

For an older example look at the various OS for OpenMoko's FreeRunner.

The only reason Sailfish OS is still viable is :
- because there are paid-for developpers at Jolla working on it
- and there's some money (from investor, from partners and carriers, from crowdsourcing and end-users) flowing to Jolla to paid said developers.
 

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