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.
"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.
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.
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 ...
Please see my other comments. They are not bankrupt. They are having significant financial issues, but debt restructuring is actually something that can work really well - the channel tunnel is the living example of this.
I for one am going to order some spare batteries for my phone. That might give them some extra cash, and it is time to do so anyway ...
Well, it is because they are not bankrupt. The title is misleading and incorrect, and outdated.
[edit] The title was changed, much better - thanks. Buying is still possible, and if you've held out because you thought Jolla did not need you - it does.
The original title was changed because it was incorrect. Jolla has to make some financial restructuring. The Jolla blog posts are more up to date than this, but IRC might even be better.
Am I missing something? This leads to a wiki page that does not actually say anything about a bankruptcy.
Can you either substantiate or remove - remaining sailors seem to be working very hard, and I would hate it if false rumors would seed negative energy ...
The original KSplice project was actually fully open source, funded by a Dutch charity called NLnet that funds lots of interesting projects like that. I've been running it ever since.
After this was all done the team got acquihired by Oracle. I was actually amazed that the team was allowed to keep the service up for some non-Oracle distro's.
But very happy to see a broader adoption of this kind of technology, it is essential for all these unmanned systems out there in the cloud that they can be patched whilst running.
I prefer viewerjs.org - I don't believe it if people that say that every modern platform has a PDF viewer.
Having a document hosted on your own website together with a javascript viewer reduces the risk for users both in terms of privacy and security, as Acrobat Reader is a seriously problematic piece of code and all the remote code is a serious violation of trust between the user and the owner of the site.