On Tue 21 May 2013 19:54:54 thomasg wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Yury Sakarinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jolla news: > > > > At the core of Jolla is Sailfish, a mobile-optimized OS that has the > > flexibility of a unique, open platform. > > One should mention, that "open platform" is a contrast to "open source > platform". > For example, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows (non-RT) are open > platforms. > > I'm still highly skeptical and don't believe we will see a Jolla phone > running _as_ open source (frameworks, phone-stack, UI) but just _on_ > open source (linux, wayland, qt). >
Well, compare maemo, which btw is also a good irc channel to have a short chat on that topic. jolla is based on mer and nemo, and probably as "open" as maemo5 been *) (and still is). Or better, according to Carsten Munk aka stskeeps /j *) http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages https://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_closed_packages -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
