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Re:Sailfish 4 by smallerfish on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:20AM (#28314538)
Can you point to references about Russian gov involvement? I see from the Sailfish page that it's deployed widely in Russia, but Jolla themselves are Finnish (https://jolla.com/about/), not exactly the most Russia friendly country around. That their OS is used in Russia isn't the same as it being Russian developed, which it doesn't appear to be(?)
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Re:Sailfish 4 by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:38AM (#28314759)
They probably meant this: https://blog.jolla.com/new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish...
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Re:Sailfish 4 by Raed667 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:26AM (#28314599)
> Russia trusts in Aurora OS

> One of the first customers for OMP was Russian Post

https://sailfishos.org/cases/

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Re:Sailfish 4 by smallerfish on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:28AM (#28314632)
> The product was soon re-branded to Aurora OS. Aurora OS is an independent, “standalone” product and derivative work of Sailfish OS, and property of Open Mobile Platform LLC.

From your link. Is there any evidence of them pushing code back upstream?

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Re:Sailfish 4 by mpol on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:39AM (#28314780)
Yes, the latest release have seen some code contributions from Aurora. Some well-known people in the community even work for Aurora, like coderus.

To be fair, without the Russian investor, there would be no Jolla anymore :)

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