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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by intopieces on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:54PM (#13066900)
This is my question. I mean, not to be disparaging (and correct me if I'm off base here) but isn't the Russian market rather small? Double the GDP per capita of china, sure, but with only 143m people and an economy about the size of New York City it seems like a tall order.

Being government backed, does that make it a security risk, similar to the recent issues with BLU devices calling home to Chinese servers?

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by widforss on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:59PM (#13067305)
This is an OS developed by a finnish company. There is little to none risk that a finnish developer would allow malicious russian code on their plattform. The only more anti-russian people I know of is the Balts.
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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by soperj on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:07PM (#13066983)
It's not made in Russia. It's also been around for 2 years now, and seems to be doing just fine.
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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by intopieces on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:06PM (#13067344)
From the article:

>Sailfish’s local certification in Russia also follows an announcement earlier this year that a new Russian company, Open Mobile Platform (OMP), had licensed the OS with the intention of developing a custom version of the platform for use in the domestic market. So, in other words, a Russian, strategic ‘Android alternative’ is currently being built on Sailfish.

Am I misunderstanding the scope of this 'custom version'? Is the version of Android running on BLU devices not also a custom version developed by a local company?

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