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.
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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.
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