I doubt "licensing Sailfish" is a good model at all. They need something else. Partnerships, etc. Mozilla for example doesn't "license" Firefox OS - it's fully open source. Still, they have partners. How exactly does it work?
Partnerships, etc. Mozilla for example doesn't "license" Firefox OS - it's fully open source. Still, they have partners. How exactly does it work?
How does it work?
Mozilla is a non-profit organization, so it's a completely different situation. I doubt that Jolla would want to have no profit at all
Plus who would choose Firefox if it wasn't free - it doesn't bring anything new or revolutionary after all...
But I agree having more (partner) developers on board is a good idea, especially at this stage.
I doubt "licensing Sailfish" is a good model at all. They need something else. Partnerships, etc.
Mozilla for example doesn't "license" Firefox OS - it's fully open source. Still, they have partners. How exactly does it work?
Much of this area is covered [fairly] well in the MeR video I linked above.
Much of this area is covered [fairly] well in the MeR video I linked above.
Don't forget that employer does not always knows companys fully strategy. After all they are engineers not bosses.
but i scares me that jolla seems to not fully have a longer strategy mens after first phone release. After all they need some kind of bussiness model especially if they go fully opensource..
Don't forget that employer does not always knows companys fully strategy. After all they are engineers not bosses
He said it quite emphatically, like he's spoken to senior management & they're in agreement.
Find the snippet I'm talking about...
Of course things could change, that's always a very real (& understandable) possibility.
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but i scares me that jolla seems to not fully have a longer strategy mens after first phone release. After all they need some kind of bussiness model especially if they go fully opensource..
Agreed, not enough detail there, hopefully we'll hear much more, & sooner rather than later.
In the light of recent developments I think Jolla has a slight chance to establish itself on the market.
- The NSA leaks have shown that Android (or better the services that come along with it) is basically spyware for the american government.
- Microsoft is now a hardware maker, hence others will likely refrain from doing WP phones in the future.
- In general handset makers may want to become indepenent of Google services in the longer term, i.e. be able to pick whatever service-provider they'd like.
Of course they could also use Ubuntu Mobile or an Android fork, however at least the latter comes with known problems.
