I can agree one some points.
But “one single feature inside SailfishOS” is not exactly that what you probably think.
The Hardware usage is exclusive in the most modern OSes. When BT-Hardware is part of the Linux Dev-Tree it physically can’t be available in the Virtualisation like Aliendalvik.
you can’t connect the same hardware to the Host OS and to your Virtual Machine. So it need to be a feature, which disconnects the BT-Hardware from the host-System and connects it to the Alien Dalvik.
Its not an easy task from the Development Point of view.
Closing this gap with crowdfunding is a wrong strategy for a company who do real business.
why its wrong for a company - i wrote in the upper post, but i try to explain it a bit easier to understand.
- You plan that for development of this feature you need 10000,- EUR and 8 month of work
- You make an crowdfunding campaign
- You have 5 developers which starts working
- 2 developers getting ill and are out of the business for 6 month, but you need to pay them salaries.
- Your project get stuck. You have no money and the product is not ready in time.
What will you do? Ask for more money on a second campaign?
For such tasks, true waterproof contracts are needed.
One customer or company need to come to Jolla and sign a contract for developing this feature. Than it will be doable.
Again, only my opinion. I backed 5 crowdfunding campaigns, 4 of them failed. Now i pay only for a real product available for sale.
And for the admins: My post is about development of working Bluetooth under Alien Dalvik, so its not OT. Thanks