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I heard Sailfish OS had several closed bits in it like Maemo. I heard that the user interface and the Jolla components were closed source. If Jolla is yet another Quasi-open source os like Maemo was then I will look elsewhere. Can anyone confirm that this is true or false?
 

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I'm pretty sure some things are closed, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad OS. I'm sure Sailfish is just as closed or as open as other OSes.

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yes it has closed components. Not that it matters. Every distro has some closed parts.
 
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Yeah go look somewhere else and realise that there is NO fully opensource on embedded. Not even a hobbyproject like raspberrypi is fully opensource.

Silica will probadly be open. What will not is the apps and GFX stack etc...

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The user interface and some components are closed as it has been stated by themselves several times BUT they also stated that this will/may change in the future. I think they are trying to protect the os components, ui, etc. from others untill & after the release since they don't have the power to patent everything.

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yes it has closed components. Not that it matters. Every distro has some closed parts.
Not really. Mobile ones do. I don't like the N9 vis'a'vis the N900 as the N9 is far more restricted. (besides I dont like the OS or hardware compared to N900.)
 

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sailfish ui/ux is excellent, it does not matyer to me if the ui is open or closed.
 
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sailfish ui/ux is excellent, it does not matyer to me if the ui is open or closed.
Whether a UI is excellent or not is irrelevant. Openness is important.
edit: I realize drivers and what not will be closed but a platform should be open enough to port it to other hardware. The user interface is a pretty important component and should be open.

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For information on this you'll have to wait until the release. Too early to say what will be closed or open yet.
 
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