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Neither Maemo nor Sailfish were "open mobile" in terms of hardware. They ran on the same kind of commodity mobile-phone hardware fraught with privacy risks as a
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
Neither Maemo nor Sailfish were "open mobile" in terms of hardware. They ran on the same kind of commodity mobile-phone hardware fraught with privacy risks as any mainstream phone, and the appeal of Librem has been that its design was going to overcome that. Also, while the software on Maemo and Sailfish devices was mostly open and hackable, the actual UI layer and some of the stock apps were closed-source.
- zozbot234 7y agoI think Sailfish had a proprietary UI component, but Maemo (and its derivatives Meego, Moblin and Mer) was wholly open except for the usual kernel/driver issues that are pretty much ubiquitous in embedded land.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoNo, some of the Nokia UI components on the N900 were closed-source. There was a community project to gradually write Free Software replacements for them, but it never completely covered what was provided by Nokia packages.