Other comments have links to more details, but in short: do not support this company.

It was to be expected that a lot of corps will want to milk the term "EU sovereignty" and good willed naive people who don't look inside the packaging.

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mpol 11 hours ago | parent [-]

You're probably responding because of the Jolla tablet :)

To be fair, the Jolla tablet was in 2015, more than 10 years ago. Most probably, many of the people working at Jolla are not the same as then. Also, if you read carefully all the announcements and communication from Jolla, you can easily see they have learned from that crowdfunding affair. This is not the same offer, not in a long mile.

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poisonborz 11 hours ago | parent [-]

That and the russian ties, the partially closed source OS, the locked bootloader, the $50 device reset fee, the cheap underpowered chinese chipset. The company was sold more than once between investment firms. Yet it presents itself like a happy independent open source collective.

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ttkari 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The firm with partly russian ownership went bankrupt a couple of years ago. The russian fork of the software lives on as AuroraOS in their local market but the current Jolla has no ties to russia.

	▲	isodev 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> current Jolla has no ties to russia That we know of. We live in interesting times. I wish they were more forward with how they've made it so they're protected against such interference.