Latest news about jolla: https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-back-business/
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > maybe you already did read about Jolla Oy (developer of Sailfish OS and > Tablets - continuing maemo, mer, N9): > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Jolla/comments/3teqdr/finnish_newspaper_reports_jolla_in_financial/ > > And now they have to rapidly leave their office and even problems of getting > enough hands for moving equipment: > > > https://together.jolla.com/question/122860/in-helsinki-heres-one-way-to-help-jolla-on-2611-office-move/ > > There was also a recent notice about financial data: > > > http://en.finder.fi/Matkapuhelimia+ja+oheistarvikkeita/Jolla+Oy/HELSINKI/economy/2640873 > > It appears as if they really burnt investor's money (loss is 200% of revenue > in 2014!) and didn't find a sustainable business model to finance a headcount > of 95 - 125 employees. Looking at these figures I don't wonder why they can't > find another investor. It is a very deep black hole for money. > > All this is quite unfortunate for us users who want to have independent > alternatives to iOS and stock Android. > > So I think we should enforce our activities and try not to bloat the > organization, so that lack of money becomes an issue. > > Here is another fitting citation from Jolla wich describes in short words > what a major issue is: > > "Jaakko Roppola @ > https://twitter.com/JaakkoRoppola/status/652346837907709952 > How much would you be ready to pay monthly for an independent > operating system? > No adds, no backdoors, no data mining, no 3rd party agenda." > > Since we have very similar goals but run on donation basis, I am happy to > tell that we have received these days a significant donation [1] to continue > software maintenance work. This allows to make steps toward a more > feature-complete kernel with less power consumption. And improve > Replicant/SHR/QtMoko/QuantumSTEP to make the GTA04 a daily useable device. > Here is what the donator wrote where he sees the priorities: > >> I think the most pressing issues are: >> >> - Rock-solid Phone and SMS functionality >> - Power usage in standby (as compare to the 3.7 kernel) >> - Bluetooth w/ car kit >> >> In that order would best fit my needs... > > So a big thank-you-very-much to the donator from within our community! > > The current software team at Goldelico consisting of Lukas, Marek and myself > will take this as an obligation to continue our hard work on Letux Kernel, > Replicant and other subsystems. If you want to join the team to work as a > freelancer/subcontractor, please contact me. > > BR, > Nikolaus > > [1]: http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation > _______________________________________________ > Gta04-owner mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gta04-owner -- as simple and primitive as possible ------------------------------------------------- Marek Belisko - OPEN-NANDRA Freelance Developer Ruska Nova Ves 219 | Presov, 08005 Slovak Republic Tel: +421 915 052 184 skype: marekwhite twitter: #opennandra web: http://open-nandra.com _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.openphoenux.org
