A year has passed since Commodore, the computer brand many of you know and love, came back from the dead under new ownership. The comeback is picking up pace too, with a lineup that already includes multiple Commodore 64 Ultimate editions, a C64X PC, and a licensing program that invites outside builders to use the name. Now, they have announced a return to the phone market, and not in the doomscrolling glass-slab avatar we are all used to, but in a retro, very equippable flip phone format…

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    1 day ago

    Sailfish is not proprietary.

    Lipstick (the UI) is proprietary. The OS itself is not.

    That said, as someone who uses a SailfishOS phone everyday, I both wish Lipstick was OSS and wish this Commodore thing didn’t exist. It’s only going to bring poor publicity to Sailfish due to its stupid pricetag and featureset.