Maybe @Kea impression was based on this year WMC in Barcelona? At least there is a photo of certain Jollyboys with Fairphone Girlz
https://forum.sailfishos.org/uploads/db4219/original/2X/1/13b4a4f5e0507193a8baca812775f0bab253a9c8.jpeg
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Its as simple as fairphone paying jolla to support the HW. That was the way for any mfg wanting to run SFOS on their devices.
Probably Fairphone doesn’t care and are fine with a spyware OS.
Or maybe it is something else.
The thread is from the point of view “I’m an SFOS user and I want to use the FP hardware”. Jolla sells licences, Jolla is happy.
Now on the FP side. Once the port gets known, some FP users will install SFOS, and some will be fully converted. Then they are hooked onto the SFOS hardware models.
Say, you’re a long-time FP user, you liked SFOS, and you want a new phone.
- Just at that moment a new Jolla Phone goes on sale, or a new Xperia is supported.
- Or, FP publishes a new model, but Jolla decides not to support it, or the port to the new FP has some issues.
There is the argument that FP users will want to remain on FP hardware because of the “fairness” question, which Jolla does not address. But using second-hand hardware, including Xperias, is also a good solution for some of the people who share the philosophical principles that brought them to the “fair” market space.
The Fairphone company can think they will lose customers, even if not many. The better SFOS gets, the more customers FP can lose.
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Well, Fairphone the company is not really in contact with its community neither.
Jolla is doing better regarding this, with technical staff really using this forum for instance, while it must be disturbing to read the passionate yells of so many dreams that 24h a day impeach you to deliver (even when it’s just an up to date web browser :-p).
I can’t work when someone speaks in the room, here we are 3500 complaining about RAM version, app store validation queue, new software behaviors…
This being said, I am a no-Jack no-Deal guy. (X10III is great, X5IV still feels a bit too wide now that I have it in hands, lets peacefully dream about a perfect J3, supporting the cause in the meantime)
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They also offer a degoogled OS option.
It seems strange to me that there’s no official Fairphone ports. Ubuntu Touch’s Fairphone 4 port is built “in collaboration with the phone maker”, so there’s obviously some room there for collaboration (or there was, at the very least). If there actually were talks between Jolla and FP, I wonder what went wrong. 
Well I don’t know, but is UT developed as for profit? My understanding has been that it is non-profit development. And if they truly are for non-profit, I would imagine that collaboration could be quite easy even from FP end as they don’t need to divide the profits at all. But co-operation between two for profit companies includes much more hassle to find agreement between profit shares. And who has responsibility over what in warranty cases etc. My guess has been that they didn’t find acceptable agreement for both and/or FP wasn’t that interested of Linux OS. For them it might look like small niche compared to android market. With e/OS they can put the EU sticker on and most people don’t understand that they are still using android
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Wouldn’t mind testing a Fairphone 6 port for Sailfish OS once it is available
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I often marvel at that. They must be very good at filtering out the noise.
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Hi mel, let us not be distracted. Any update on your work on SailFishOS for FP6? Is there any hope of reaching the same progress as with FP5?
Thank you for your contributions.
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