> 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.

It'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.

> 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.

Apple 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.