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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
And about FOSS not possible. Yes I take that back, some companys can, but thats way different sectors than mobile/embedded markets where you depends on alot more manufactors to realese FOSS drivers etc.. As I already has stated in an old post: Jolla is to small get drivers or write FOSS drivers themself.


Jolla has to have another bussines plan if they want to be fully open. Licensing SailfishOS if fully open source will def not work.
I'm OK with drivers being closed. Writing their own drivers is probably impossible for Jolla. Even if they'll get into reverse engineering, there can also be potential patent pitfalls there and etc. But I was talking about higher level. Making the OS besides the hw adaptation fully open can be a possibility. In the future Jolla should expand anyway. I hope they will.
 

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