asked 2019-08-27 12:36:50 +0200
I thought I'd share this, since I haven't yet seen it on together.jolla.com. https://www.osnews.com/story/130537/huawei-in-talks-to-install-the-russian-operating-system-aurora-on-360000-tablets/
answered 2019-08-27 18:24:00 +0200
If we don't mind political relations between Russia (Aurora OS) and China (Huawei), why chines don't ask Jolla directly as first line developer of core OS (Sailfish)? Sorry that I am not familiar with economical-legal business, but did Jolla sell to russians besides licence to use OS also license to resell licence to use OS? Is it by law correct?
I think its politically motivated, Huawei is one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers, without this covered economical war by the Trump government in favor for Samsung, Huawei would perhaps be the biggest smartphone manufacturer now. Huawei has already flooded Africa, South East Asia is also widely covered with Huawei phones. Russia wants to get away from western technology and western softwarem, for political and security reasons. I think there is some kind of deal between Huawei and Russia, so that they lets the sales numbers of Huawei grow, and Huawei therefore opens up smartphone plants in Russia, which brings both economical growth, and technology. So for both it would be win win, Russia gets jobs and technology and Huawei, new markets, where if they specialize on open source technology they would favored. So i find it a really interesting thing. Both, Russia and Huawei, could bring forward Sailfish OS a lot, so that we finally would get a new third OS in the market. As long as it stays open source, everybody can see what was changed under the hood :)
Firefox84 ( 2019-08-27 23:49:44 +0200 )edit@Firefox84 I'm sorry but since when is Sailfish open sourced? As far as I know Jolla promised to open source Sailfish but that never happened.
sepuka ( 2019-08-28 10:15:29 +0200 )editThere might be some commercial and legal reasons for that, e.g. Rostelecom has a stronger financial backing than Jolla and so it would look as a more reliable commercial partner from Huawei point of view (say, able to pay fines if they cannot deliver what has been promised)
simosagi ( 2019-08-28 15:23:19 +0200 )editanswered 2019-08-28 13:40:53 +0200
Here is a link to a German site that explicitly mentions SFOS: Huawei will russisches Sailfish OS auf Tablets installieren
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And Jolla ain't gonna see jack.
Kopekenscheich ( 2019-08-27 13:15:02 +0200 )editNot exactly jack.
Yes, it's Rostelecom that is going to pocket most of the cash.
But this is going to increase the install base of Sailfish OS and derivative, which is overall good for the ecosystem of the platform. (Might increase the number of native apps).
If this eventually holds, and Huawei keeps making Avrora OS devices, given their big volume, it might also encourage some chipset manufacturer to eventually consider making GNU/Linux drivers instead of Android drivers (so eventually, the new Huawei devices coming in a few year could work without libhybris).
DrYak ( 2019-08-27 13:33:18 +0200 )edit@Kopekenscheich: I'd be surprised if Jolla wouldn't get at least some sort of licensing revenue out of this.
rozgwi ( 2019-08-27 23:19:39 +0200 )editRostelecom holds shares on Jolla Oy but doesn't own it, right?