Well they’re saying despite there being a light sensor it still can be easily circumvented by also covering the camera, not the LED, with your hand when starting to record and then just moving your hand away from the camera once the glasses are recording. I’ve definitely seen this tip shared and I think even an video of it in action.

They probably realize there’s no airtight way to prevent it anyway so they’ve added just some simple ways to make it a bit more difficult. It’s not like you couldn’t get camera glasses from some other company without these restrictions anyway if you’re determined to record without the light.

Having seen what people now accept I would not want to bet that these will fail. Never thought people would be OK with Google using their phone to record their exact location 24/7 and save a searchable history of it for example but it seems that never was even controversial. Same with phones and other dedicated little devices that are always listening…

Yeah I think they’ve stopped short of really saying they’re committed to making everything free so expecting them to open more but still not everything is probably what you can realistically count on… we’ll see though.

This is the latest announcement I’ve seen on it: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/open-sourcing-proceeding/24689

Maybe so but being a single division in a company is very different from being an independent company anyway. I would also say that Jolla itself has certainly liked to portray themselves as “doing open source” for a long time but they have not had as concrete plans as the current ones for actually opening the OS up at any point in time before.

Nokia isn’t the same company as Jolla though.

Well more recently they’ve been promising that they will slowly open source it. Not to say there isn’t reason to wait and see on that but there’s at least more reason to be optimistic now than if they hadn’t even said that.

There’s something to be said for this as well certainly but I do think the deck is still much better overall than will be required since they actually offer spare parts for sale for pretty much everything and repair guides too.