Well, we can agree on that an official update on the situation would be great.
Until then … perhaps not everybody read the info @Douwe gave in November '16 …
Truth is; I do not know more myself.
There have been talks between Jolla and Fairphone, but I wasn’t there at the table.
As all things, in the end it has to do with money; development costs time, time equals money and apparently Jolla and Fairphone did not reach agreement yet over who is going to pay what part of the bill.
It is very hard for me to say when the people involved in these talks will come to a conclusion and what that conclusion will be. I ask regularly, but as the talks are ongo…
Don’t forget that there is also documentation, support, legal issues, updates and commercial parts to this project. New docs need to be written, support staff needs to be trained, contracts with Jolla need to be made, EULAs have to be updated, future support needs to be sustainable (we cant release and then let it be) and then there is the question: how are we going to sell it?
Will we need to change the shop and allow people to choose which OS they want when they buy? Will people be able to …
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