Russia mobile operating system scenarios

Russian minister shows more interest towards Jolla's Sailfish OS

Russia is planning to develop its own mobile operating system, and it might be based on Finnish SailfishOS by Jolla. Nikolay Nikiforov, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications, has shared news on this, here's our view into the situation:

Mid-term review - Open Source situation of Sailfish OS

What's opened after 1 year, Jolla? 

A year has passed, and we all know that Jolla has set Open Sourcing of Sailfish OS as their goal already before that time. Let's check where Jolla stands with OSS after a year:

UPDATE, February 3, 2015: Sailfish OS is currently a non-OSS operating system, and earlier mentioned goal towards Open Source is, at this point, missing

Download Jolla factory image file for recovery

In the sails of Open Source - Jolla

The story begins from November 2013, two days after the first Jolla phone was sold. These phones were expected to be open, so a simple question was asked by user juiceme at TMO:

"I think we need a thread for flashing new kernels / OS releases for Jolla too"

Jolla has John Brooks coding for them

Nice mention in WIRED article - John Brooks has been working also for Jolla

“He writes incredible code,” Australian security journalist Patrick Gray says, “and really thinks like a hacker, even though he doesn’t have a security background.”

Brooks, who moves around a lot but currently resides with his parents in Utah, has been working as a contract software engineer developing a Linux-based operating system Sailfish OS for a Finnish company Jolla Oy.

Update: John Brook's Ricochet IM

Jolla Sailfish OS Source Codes

Open parts of Sailfish OS update 8 source codes in Jolla smartphone - all under GPL licence shared

All the Open Source codes under GPL licence from Jolla's operating system are packed into a public tar-file, earlier available only as a hardcopy ordered directly from Jolla Oy.

This is one step forward in the company openness, however there are still steps to take