Although the below comment is more of a continuation of my concerns posted in this topic, the latest relevant thoughts and discussion has been here, so therefore I decided to place my question here as well. Please @paulakreuzer, move my post when you feel it necessary.
Ok, here it goes:
Continuing the discussion from Poll: If you could install any mobile operating system:
Because of the size of the FP company and the complexity of the coding of operating systems I am not expecting FP to sell me a phone with Sailfish, CyanogenMod, Replicant or something else. It would suffice for me to know that hacker communities could thoeretically develop a succesful port of an alternative ROM to the FP2.
Although I don’t understand, I still acknowledge the fact that open and free OS-es are not of great interest to most people. For me on the other hand it is a condition. Spending over 500 euros and then being dissapointed in the possibilities of porting alternative OS-es - as would have been the case if I would have bought FP1 - is just too big a risk for me. I would own with a fairly produced product, have ‘joined a movement’ and supported a good cause. Great things in their own rights. But I would also be owning a product that I don’t feel comfortable using.
@fp1_wo_sw_updates & @anon40444829 and others that might have more technical knowledge than me; if FP does publish the source code this month as was promised, would it finally be possible to assess the probability that hacker communities will be able to port other OS-es in the future? Or on a more practical note: would this be the missing information I can base my decision on to back the crowdfunding initiative?