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Only very small portion of actual OS isn't fully open? Someone could say it to be blatant lye to say it is closed, when only UI is closed.
It is true that Jolla did business inside Russia 2015-2021, which wasn't smart, but so did everyone else. So blaming just them is weird. And they wanted to get out of Russia before 2022 invasion. Russian state company owned around ~20% at its peak of Jolla. I wouldn't round that to be near majority.... Facts straight next time?
@Antti They didn't choose the licensing for the portions of SailfishOS not developed by them. They didn't make the Linux kernel or choose the GPLv2 license it uses. For the majority of what they've developed themselves rather than taken from others, the code is closed source. The project itself is largely closed source. you're trying to present it as if code they took from elsewhere should be credited to them while meanwhile the portions they actually made which is mainly the UI are closed.
Well I guess you know that there is a little bit other parts also as only UI.... But sure, what you said!
@Antti The UI and application layer which is largely closed source is in fact a huge portion of what they've made and is not the only part of SailfishOS which is closed source.
Like I said, whatever you say! Would you say that Graphene is actual independent operating system made from scratch?