Congratulations Jolla! This is good news after a crippling period of uncertainty. I hope Jolla keeps its eyes focused on the EU from now on. A better business model and coöperation with others perhaps? I hope Sailfish can become more stable and more attractive to ordinary customers, for it is the nicest OS that exists.
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Here in the UK ‘Jollyboys’ has an entirely different meaning in urban slang, and one of an overtly sexual nature. So, not a good choice for a company name that trades in the UK either.
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If you don’t offer a flashing service, you leave a part of the potential customers behind. Most people favour a ready to use device.
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I think it would be most unfortunate for Jollyboys to offer a flashing service here in the UK. This could very easily be misinterpreted.
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I think I read above that Seafarix will be a subsidiary of the new company, so provided that subsidiary is wholly owned by the new company, then in effect the new company will own the licence for app support either way.
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Ok…let’s start port nemo on auto hehehe
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Yes, let’s skip that silly word.
Take it easy, be happy and gay!
edit: For he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow,
for he’s a jolly good fe-e-low, and so say all of us.
And so say all of us, and so say all of us.
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The famous ios sailfish device? 
So to recap;
jolla now owns one business (seafarix);
and another one has been created (jollyboys)?
Who owns jollyboys?
I understood that jolly boys is personal property of the people from the jolla oy management
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Firstly, fantastic news, much better than expected.
“we held tough negotiations with the owners from spring 2022 to spring 2023, which ended without success.”
This means Rostelcom, right?
So nobody said a word against them and nobody knew a management buyout was on the cards. Is Sami Pienimäki part of the management buyout or being retained?
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The “Jolly” word can have three main meanings:
- Joker (the card)
- Joyful (the clown)
- Jolly char (usually the
*but also?or.depending the re-expression language)
Those send me here, knew me with the temporary nickname of Joker.
Edit: s/surname/nickname/
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Jolly has such a lot of meanings, so let it be, it sounds nice. And in Austria Jolly is also another word for Joker (playing cards), wildcard. This is the best card, it replaces every card!
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Jolly Boys is very unlike.
Say what you want; 10M investment is not a small thing for a Joker.
I strongly doubt that it is for JollyBoys but for SeaFarix and as far as I read SeaFarix is not about SFOS.
However, I might have missed something. But, I did not found no any evidence of 10M and moreover 10M of what? Apple, pears, lemons?
Well, you do have to be careful of your company/product names if you are trading in an international market. Especially if a name which is perfectly fine in one culture is offensive or inappropriate in another. In the 1980’s, Vauxhall (then part of GM along with Opel) released a new small car called the Vauxhall Nova. In the UK this was fine, as nova meant ‘new’. Unfortunately in Spain the car was a disaster as ‘No Va’ means ‘doesn’t go’ in Spanish - not an ideal name for a car. It had to be changed to be the Vauxhall/Opel Corsa instead - and quickly! The same might well be true of this new company name. To a lot of people in the UK, www.jollyboys.com is more likely to be assumed as a gay dating website than that of a mobile phone OS provider. Lets hope they trade under a different name.
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Apparently Jolla Oy was already taken. However, should it get dissolved after debts are settled, it might be freed.