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SFOS isn’t paid; just the proprietary features on the official ports (Android App Support and Exchange Activesync).

Community ports and official ports without those features have always been free.

I have been daily driving linux phones as my only phone for over two years. Typing to you now from a phone I ported myself, which has been in my pocket for 3 months now.

Linux phones are where Linux desktops were 10 years ago. A few of us who are lucky can get away with using them because we don’t require proprietary software on our personal devices, but many people will struggle without their Facebook app or their Garage Door Opening app or their Ford Connect app or whatever else. That said, SailfishOS has a decent compatibility layer, but it in itself is proprietary.

Bill Gates said you’d never need more than that.

Hardly, SFOS users go back to the meego/n9 days and earlier. I’m a newcomer!

Mad!

I have been running SailfishOS as my daily driver for two years now. Linux phones are great!

Come down here and say that. When you live 500km from the nearest corner store, a car is necessary.

Like it or not, not everywhere can be the perfect picture of a modern European city. Australia is too big and too sparsely populated for public transport to get to everyone, its not financially viable. Heck, many major arterial highways weren’t even paved roads until the last 20 years or so.

Cities should not need automobiles, I agree. But the food will not get to the cities without them. And the people who live in the middle of the country and make the food won’t survive without driving to town a couple of times a month either.

No. People would starve to death. Cars are necessary. Not everyone lives in the CBD of the capital city.