I'm not sure how long you'll keep on reading stuff, but rest assured me and many others will cherish the very fond memories of collaborating with you - you've always had a sharp wit and a practical sort of unconventionalism that gets things done. We have much to thank you for.
We worked together on Digistan and the "The Hague Declaration", which I helped host in The Hague - and I think it still is a strong statement that is worth repeating. People can sign that declaration:
I'm very much saddened to hear about your disease - and deep respect for the way you handle this unannounced change of plan. I hope your remaining time will be spent with those you love looking back on a rich life where you've left the world better than it is - and got the max out of it. I'll send you an email, so that when your kids are older and want to know about the things you've done they can contact me. Take care, my friend.
It does matter a lot since it brings a solid foundation to build on, and that foundation is well tested, gets regular updates and makes it easy to create a super extensible application.
Most of users that look for such self hosted solution will know that using a framework is better than "pure php" because they get well tested code.
The use of a framework Does not mean the code is better, i would argue the opposite, many a new dev learns on a framework and often doesn't know the underlying language, whereas choosing not to use a framework is usually a conscious decision based on evaluation of actual needs.
Since the product is self hosted and comes with the source code, if you want, you can customize it, fix bugs yourself, write custom features for clients, write extensions to sell, etc.
If it's built on a solid framework, and you study the framework, you'll know where to look when you want to change a model, a controller, so on.
"Safe browsing" is one of the first things I turn off when installing a new profile in a browser. I personally dislike any commercial service turned on by default in my software that continually and without my consent pings back to some place on the net - using my real IP address and leaking anything remotely related to destination addresses. And cookies?
I think there should be better ways of protection than trusting such a service anyway.
Yeah good call. I have mosh running to various boxes all day, but the mail sits on 2 diff servers so I tend to bring them together on the local machine. Still, very doable. Could use tmux and mosh together on the pi even... Yep, thanks for suggestion.
Actually, these are suggestions from users to Jolla. It just shows how people care about this small company doing what the world needs now - make smartphones that don't phone home all the time, and that allow you to install a firewall, inspect what software is really running, block any service you don't want to give network access, run your trusted open source toolchains for whatever you need them for and all those other tiny things that make a real difference from the rest of the industry.
Also, it is because they are not bankrupt. The original title is plainly misleading. They are restructuring.
As a happy Jolla user (my whole family has one), I hope they make it. If you don't have one yet - I encourage you to order one. It is something different, and a feeling of 'just buying a phone, not a surveillance tool" that no other phone on the market can give you.
They could do with your help. If you want to buy but are scared you might lose money doing so because of non-news like this: under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, your credit card company is jointly liable if something goes wrong with a product or a service you've paid for by credit card. So if anything fails, you get your money from the credit card company. If it doesn't, you'll have a great phone and instant real karma.
I don't think your analysis of the whole "Microsoft buying Nokia" is correct. Nokia did not offload, but had no money left to defend itself against an aggressor. Basically, they were led to the slaughterhouse by the "burning platform" message from a former Microsoft employee.
The way Elop treated Nokia's technologically superior platform was very transparently not in the interest of Nokia. The subsequent sale must have landed him a lot of money. I'm curious what Elop is doing now ...
Elop left Microsoft earlier this year in one of their reorgs. It's reasonable to say that he was fired, I think.
It was clear before the Elop memo that Nokia's phone business was becoming a very expensive albatross. If they had stuck with Symbian and MeeGo, the financial situation in 2013 wouldn't have been much different from what actually happened with the Microsoft deal: under pressure from Apple and Android, the phone unit was losing money to the tune of hundreds of millions per quarter. Except this time, there wouldn't have been a buyer lined up to pay $4+ billion for it.
So Nokia absolutely did manage to offload the phone business just in time. Microsoft ended up writing off the whole purchase price.
An Elopless Nokia in 2015 would look a lot like Blackberry. Not quite bankrupt, but not in a happy place even though it had a technologically superior new OS and a brand that used to be worth a lot.
Well, Blackberry still has quite a few governments as its customer, and will continue to have them for a while. And as I recall, the N9 still sold millions of devices even though it was no longer receiving any promotion. The consumer market is not the only road to success.
I also would like to think that after the Snowden revelations Nokia would have been able to convince many organisations that security and privacy are not dead, and that ones mobile phone is probably the most invasive technology in use.
It goes where you go, it listens to what you say, it reads what you read. It should have only one master - its owner. So far Jolla never had the scale, the public visibility or the political profile of Nokia as the European champion of technology. That story could have been told by Nokia far better.
After the sale of mobiles phones to Microsoft I started thinking that maybe this was the plan-b all the time. Maybe Elop was recruited because Nokia expected this would open the possibility of selling the phone business to Microsoft if they could not make it succeed.
You are giving Nokia's management more credit than they deserve. Buying Nokia handsets was a tremendous own-goal by Ballmer that became a major factor in costing him his job. It made Google's purchase of Motorola look like a minor stubbed toe by comparison.
It was done to "save" Windows Phone only to have it die a more lingering death.
True Fact: Microsoft still lists at least one Nokia X handset on their site. The "Nokia X platform" is based on AOSP.
I would not bet against Nokia X becoming a "Microdroid" like Amazon Fire OS.
