Am I in the right community? [answered]
For me personally was the reason to switch to and support Jolla, open source, I want to control my device completely at least as much as I can. I bought my first Jolla because of the open marketing on the website and was 1 week later disappointed about some points in openness. For me it's a lot of afford to switch from comfortable to free. I'm on the way to program 4-6 hours a day for native apps on SailfishOS. Now often there is mentioned that the majority don't care about open source or openness in general. So I ask myself I'm in the right community. I would make a poll, but this would reflect maybe only the people which care more about it. Anyway I read here all the time that most people don't care about open source and the main reason for them will be functionality. I'm afraid that I got engaged in the wrong project every day more. How can I figure out what is the motivation for others to support and use a system which is still starting?
The problem is that some people see 'open' as a black and white thing with no middle ground.
We would not have a Jolla at all if Jolla listened to these people.
aegis ( 2014-11-30 14:54:55 +0200 )editYou are in the right community. Just check the talk about the exFAT filesystem for the tablet. ...and the response from Jolla.
vattuvarg ( 2014-11-30 14:56:21 +0200 )editBeing Open is not equivalent to being in favour of poor functionality. Nor does being in favour of functionality preclude openness.
strongm ( 2014-11-30 14:57:03 +0200 )edit@aegis I would say a big part of this issue is that many early adopters who took part even on the preorder really came from the open source community and choose Jolla over other cheaper, more convenient and closed alternatives (Android, BB10, iOS, etc.). So I would say we might actually not have a Jolla now if the "open" people did not support it from the early start. :)
Also on related note, due to the store still not supporting paid apps, the open source community is at the moment the only significant group of people writing native apps for Sailfish OS - for free and in their own free time! So please don't single out members the "open" members of the community - they also want Sailfish OS/Jolla to succeed and are often working very hard in their own way towards this goal. But understandably want it to become more/fully open over time, as the openness is pretty much the main reason for their participation.
MartinK ( 2014-11-30 15:07:58 +0200 )editMy take is, that Jolla is 'not yet there' and hence the people 'here' do care about more openess.
Jolla is imho at the current time the most promising approach to ~open mobile computing.
- Currently Jolla has (big) shortcomings in matureness, features, quality and apps (not so difficult for me as I'm not an heavy app user but I can understand that some iPhone users really are not able/willing to forego some of their great apps)
- There are also many benefits, e.g. I like how economical my jolla treats the battery power (compared to old WP phone), the UI is (in general, not so in some details) terrific! Underlying standard GNU/Linux fantastic.
- I also appreciate the pragmatic approach. 100 % total absolut free(dom) might be the ultimate nirvana, but if it - likely - would kill the jolla company and kill to many 'niceties' I'm also happy with 80 % or so. It's still much better than the consequences I'd get from iPhone and Android.
- What else would you switch to? Ubuntu Phone? We (I) don't know yet. If it's fully open source it could be interesting. But for now I prefer the small finish underdog. Wish them all success (with > 10 % market share in a few years :-)
chappi ( 2014-11-30 15:15:32 +0200 )edit