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If you were the Chinese or Russian government, would you rather trust Google or Apple with a camera and mic on all your employees? While I don’t personally lik
by confounded 8y ago
If you were the Chinese or Russian government, would you rather trust Google or Apple with a camera and mic on all your employees?
While I don’t personally like the policies of either government, if they throw money at FOSS, that’s still (probably, see Android) a good thing.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> While I don’t personally like the policies of either government, if they throw money at FOSS. Sailfish isn’t completely FOSS and the strategy of licensing it to clients like Rostelecom foresees that a lot of the OS will remain closed source.
- progval 8y agoIt's still better than Android or iOS. Besides, no government will actually check the whole OS themselves, so they have to trust some company at some point.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> It's still better than Android or iOS. How so? Jolla’s licensing system allows its clients to bundle just as much closed source, phone home software on their phones as any Android system. They can lock the bootloader, etc.
- bitmapbrother 8y agoApple of course. They've already handed the operation of their Chinese iCloud data centers to a Chinese state run company so they already have a relationship.