Alright, I’m in for the monthly payment. In fact, I have always thought I didn’t pay enough all those years: 160 euros during the past 8 years on licences for 4 phones. To me it’s clear that is not enough to run a business.
I hope you make good progress because we need it. (If possible on the Xperia 10 V!)
My shipping address is Wembley Stadium*. (HT to Elwood Blues). I had some cash sitting in PayPal for some reason – possibly involving my in-laws – so I’m in for my small share from the US.
*Huh, it’s designed by my local stadium architecture firm. Cool.
this is like saying that watching TV is only for people who build televisions. community ports are awesome, are usually just as easy to use and install as official sailfish images, and some support a better (IMO) android app experience than appsupport using waydroid.
i dearly miss the tama port, and only switched because of the 2g/3g shutdowns and missing volte on my xz2c
I was one of the people who wanted this, so that we have a option to help fund the Sailfish delevopement.
I’d rather give an amount i can effort voluntarily, than see the official developement halt to a crawl because of funding problems every few months.
In my case, I only donate to free software, but in this case I will make an exception because of the support Sailfish needs. Once I have purchased the one-time subscription for 14.90€, when Jolla finishes releasing all the proprietary components of Sailfish, I will switch to a monthly subscription.
Maybe it’s an age thing but I find increasingly weird how people make up personal demands and expectations, make themselves feel entitled to those, put the onus on others to deliver, and then complain about being disappointed even though no-one ever agreed to anything.
I assume you write of lumen’s pledge of support at least untill second quarter of next year . . . sounds more like a promise than a demand, but I’m probably older still . . .
One time, 3 x max donation done (because I dont like a monthly subscription).
Fingers crossed that Sailfish OS is getting better and better (though atm it’s good enough for me with my 10 iii)
But this is exactly what Jolla always refrained to. Consequently, we have to forget about SailfishOS, it is (already) dead without “third party” (= “community” in Jolla’s parlance) developers.
Why, as Jolla insists on keeping SailfihsOS proprietary?
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I makes no sense to throw money and / or efforts into a bottomless pit.
It is up to Jolla (and always has been: they epically failed at that) to guarantee that there is a rock bottom, but they always denied explicitly that.
Alas, “no solid ground to build upon, means no future”.
To sum it up: Jolla does not want your help, they just want your money!
Why? Germany went for foss (nextcloud), french went for their own closed source solution, maybe jolla can get finnish gov money, BUT ONLY if they promise to not force the EU chatcontrol rubbish on them down the way? Also is every company that got EU money fully FOSS, somehow I doubt it, sounds like a lot of double standards
EDIT: seriously where are the githubs of all the windfarmers? Or are they exempt from open sourcing all their proprietary tech to save the planet (like pfizer), they are getting billions in EU funding (mine and your taxes), show me the code
Edit2: proprietary turbine drivers, proprietary code to manage the farms, proprietary code to integrate with electric grid, how dare they be not foss???
Seriously, where is Siemens FOSS contribution??? If too big to fail closed source is fine??? What about out our ‘only if’, germans don’t have to abide, only finns?
I’ve had my grievances with how Jolla has handled certain issues, but I’m also happy to say I’ve signed up for the €10/month subscription here (will probably increase it later). Recently I tried other mobile Linux distros like pmOS and it showed me just how polished SFOS was in comparison, which has really reminded me of why I switched to it in the first place.
Hopefully my small contribution will help development progress.