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Chat is this legal?

reminder that you can just run “dnf up” for update

I get where you stand hating on Jolla, and looking into it it really is a “say this, do that” company, but as a backer, I see value in it’s position. Marketing material aside if you take it as a middleground between Android with it’s problems and linux phone with it’s it gives a solid proposition. It is more mature in UI department that Ubuntu Touch or Phosh (imho) with lots of native apps that look like a part of the OS. It is also made in EU, that much is clear and well company does listen and interact with comunity (official forun/ irc chat/ matrix) and contributions are open. Right now they are slowly open sourcing the window manager, which leaves their Android app translation layer. As you said you should not market foss if it is not 100% foss, but man to be honest my linux pc is not 100℅ foss either (drivers/programs) but I’m using linux to be able to watch what even yhe closed source programs do in full as I’m in controll. Jolla Phones can do all the same, as can any linux phone that wants to position itself like that. Lastly when I was in a market for a linux phone (end of 2025) there was Pine which sells underpowered toy of a phone, Volla which sells either 2017 design phone at todays price or our of my price range options and FairPhone 6 was still unsuported well by any linux phone distro (which you have changed, god bless you). I wanted a new in look and feel phone that felt like it was made in 2025 without braking my bank and having good linux support to continue my degoogle journey. Jolla was the best option at the time and I have no regrets backing it.

Hope you understand why Jolla Phone* is so big and some reasons why people follow them. It is a stepping stone for people who want to go linux but at a pace that will not leave them in the dust. If you still can’t change your opinion let’s just agree to disagree.