<story><title>Sailfish OS – Independent Mobile OS</title><url>https://sailfishos.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>As other are saying, it&amp;#x27;s not open source. Ultimately, this means you&amp;#x27;re not in control. I can tolerate having some binary blobs, since it seems unavoidable in the current mobile landscape. But why would I go with Sailfish OS instead of Android? Why are &amp;quot;partners&amp;quot; the ones that get the &amp;quot;freedom to customize&amp;quot;? That&amp;#x27;s a big fuck you to users.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the parent company Jolla, did a horrible job with their tablet fundraiser and subsequent crash. This bred a lot of badwill in many like me. For me the biggest issue wasn&amp;#x27;t even the loss of money, since I understood the risks involved with a hardware fundraiser. It&amp;#x27;s that they were not transparent or open with the community; infrequent and opaque updates were the norm. Then all of a sudden they ran out of money and we&amp;#x27;re told maybe if we&amp;#x27;re lucky we&amp;#x27;ll get a refund eventually? They&amp;#x27;ll have to do a lot better to gain my trust.&lt;p&gt;For comparison, I also funded the Pyra [0], an ultra portable mini computer which runs Debian. Despite having paid more, and having already waited much longer, I have no big complaints. The team posts very detailed updates every 1 or 2 weeks. When anything goes wrong or things get delayed, they include it in the update.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pyra-handheld.com&amp;#x2F;boards&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;pyra&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pyra-handheld.com&amp;#x2F;boards&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;pyra&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Sailfish OS – Independent Mobile OS</title><url>https://sailfishos.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhasse</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t fully open-source in contrast to something like Replicant: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.replicant.us&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.replicant.us&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;LineageOS is also better, but includes proprietary drivers: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lineageos.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lineageos.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sailfish has proprietary drivers AND many of the GUI components are proprietary. I don&amp;#x27;t know if this list is still up-to-date: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.merproject.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;SailfishOSS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.merproject.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;SailfishOSS&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>