[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

[Liam Proven]

On 3 December 2015 at 11:58, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:
> And the code Sailfish use for the Android platform is mostly FOSS and
> downloadable straight from the Sailfish site.


This, though, is a potentially possible route. Same as you can install
the `ubuntu-restricted-extras` package and get Java, Flash, MS Core
Fonts, etc. If you could install a hacked Sailfish Java runtime and
get apps that way, then it'd be cool and helpful -- while keeping the
noobs away.

But Sailfish, AIUI, is derived from Moblin and Maemo. It has an X
server and all that. It's very different from Ubuntu Mobile.

OTOH, if Ubuntu, Jolla and Blackberry formed a consortium to develop
and support an unofficial, 3rd party, FOSS Android Java Runtime for
their 3 mobile OSes, it would be to the advantage of all of them.

So might unicorns that poop icecream that was then delivered by flying
pigs, though.

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