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Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and respectful ecosystem for mobile applications, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device).

Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and respectful privacy respecting ecosystem for mobile applications, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device).

Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and privacy respecting ecosystem for mobile applications, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device).

Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and privacy respecting ecosystem for mobile applications, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device).

Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and privacy respecting ecosystem for mobile applications, devices, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device).device). Moreover, it seems to be they're using well known open protocols for their services, so this should be feasible, maybe even reusing existing code...

Free (in the sense of open, not free beer), secure and trusted mobile communications need nowadays three components: (1) hardware and technical infrastructres you can trust, (2) an OS and software you can trust, (3) and cloud based services you can trust as well.

I won't discuss the first point, obviously there are too many concerns and almost no answers. For the second question, well, still not happy with it from a security viewpoint, but at least Sailfish OS is some kind of alternative. And same goes for the native apps, not sure how much we can trust some of them. But for the third point, besides using your own owncloud-server, there is little to no alternative to the major players.

Recently, the linux hardware and OS company Purism has started a project named "Librem One" (https://librem.one) which promises a "bundle of ethical services". If the project succeeds, mail, chat, vpn, social platform and more services could become a new and privacy respecting ecosystem for mobile devices, without tracking, spying, advertising and so on (excepting legal requests for data, but that's inevitable). Of course, this is not free but comes at a price, which is far more honest than having to pay with your personal data for a supposedly "free service".

Now: how about if Sailfish OS would embrace maybe at the OS level, but at least at the level of community apps, a way of easily interfacing with these librem services through a set of native apps? I remember there was one try by Jolla to collaborate with an indie cloud storage company, but this never got really working. How about trying it now with another partner? (even knowing that they also try to develop and alternative mobile device). Moreover, it seems to be they're using well known open protocols for their services, so this should be feasible, maybe even reusing existing code...code....