Should Canonical succeed through crowdfunding enough to raise money for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone, then, requires the developer to all the software, including the drivers for the hardware of the phone, completely open source.
Canonical aims via Indiegogo enough money to get the Ubunu Edge smartphone to be able to achieve. The company has the ambitious target via the crowdfunding platform is 32 million dollars. At the time of writing, with still 18 days to go, the counter is at 8.1 million dollars.
In an interview with Infoworld late Canonical leader Mark Shuttleworth know that Canonical aims for the Edge smartphone exclusively with open-source software to deliver. Also, the necessary drivers would, according to Shuttleworth, completely open source. This would make the software totally customizable for developers. Shuttleworth also indicates that the Edge is not included third party software will contain.
The big question is whether Canonical will manage to in time enough to raise money for his smartphone, which in addition to the Unity environment of Ubuntu also Android should be able to run. Analysts doubt openly or Canonical not too ambitious with his crowdfunding project, in part because, despite a profitable start there was no shot would be in getting the required dollars. Canonical has stated that there is no Edge will be released if the Indiegogo project the intended goal of 32 million dollars.