Post #2029897
2026-05-05 16:31 UTC
@david_bardos @kris @Vivaldi From 2015 through 2023, Jolla was largely owned by a Russian state enterprise and heavily worked with the Russian government. Russia has a government fork called Aurora OS despite SailfishOS being largely closed source as they have special access. Russia began invading/occupying Ukraine back in 2014 and was heavily sanctioned. Jolla partnered with them after this was ongoing. The same management who chose that path and stuck with it so long are still running Jolla.
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2026-05-05 16:42
@david_bardos @kris @Vivaldi GrapheneOS is an international project. It's a non-profit open source project and doesn't have a business model or shareholders. We have a non-profit based in Canada which funds and supports the project but we're free to form non-profits in other countries. The 3 directors of our Canadian non-profit are citizens of Canada, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Under 10% of our team are Canadian. We don't consider GrapheneOS to have a nationality and don't present it that way.