Crowdfunding licensed software for jolla SailfishOS [not relevant]
asked 2013-12-31 05:47:56 +0300
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How about crowdfunding licence software for Jolla Sailfish OS native (exclude Android) to power Europe phone company ? it appear there some limitations of SailfishOS came from license royalties/fee block some evolution read some place.
software:
- FAT32 licence ? exFAT (FileSystem)
- MS Silverlight plugin (animation)
- WMA, AAC, etc (codec)
- Swype from nuance (not Swipe) Keyboard
- Swiftkey (Keyboard) native Sailfish
- Swirl (Zoom with 1 finger (1 hand to hold and do the gesture))
- Opera mini (fast web browser optimized for small screen low bandwith/volume and without ads)
- Nokia Xpress (fast web browser cloud optimized for small screen low bandwith/volume and without ads)
- VLC player licence ? (media player)
- YouTube ?
- PlayTo/Miracast/AirPlay/WiDi/DLNA/chromecast (transmission)
- Here.com map offline + voice guidance and street name ....
hardware ? (welcome to add unlisted)
I wouldn't waste resources on supporting proprietary stuff like Silverlight or AAC. If you want to crowdfund something, it's better to promote and sponsor open technologies which need adoption, not to do the opposite. Just my personal opinion whether to participate in such campaign.
shmerl ( 2013-12-31 08:17:49 +0300 )editthe only licensed stuff I can think of to be useful would be the Pureview Camera as so far it has no counterpart in open source due to its hardware - software symbiosis.
vandersmash ( 2013-12-31 09:27:05 +0300 )editThe idea isn't bad, even though some of the examples are terrible (Silverlight is dead). But I wouldn't put down my money unless it'll result in opensource. I wouldn't be interested in buying i license and give it to a company, even if it's a rather nice company like Jolla.
evk ( 2013-12-31 12:20:28 +0300 )editWhat about Skype integration?
BonoNL ( 2013-12-31 12:59:00 +0300 )editAAC isn't proprietary but in any case it's supported already. The media app quite happily plays AAC and it's part of the MPEG 4 standard so presumably required for video also.
The Sailfish browser reports it plays AAC audio too.
aegis ( 2013-12-31 13:37:11 +0300 )edit