alt Hacker NewsFunnily enough the only viable deployment was AuroraOS in Russia , which they cut ties with after the war started (pretty shortsighted IMO) as the equivalent US ops merely paused their operations with options for future return. I think Google only stopped monetization of play store from Visa/MC CC ban , while maintianing their operations there. Meanwhile the sailfish guys set their largest successful deployment on fire with no recourse for reapprochment once the peace returns. As im thinking the RU market would be drifting more towards Chines tech ala HarmonyOS etc if they want alternatives to Android/IOS.
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It's an open source project that nobody is getting rich off of, so voluntarily cutting ties with the Russian market doesn't present the sort of moral dilemma that TAM-obsessed, locked-down, for-profit OSes worry about.
It is a small company in a niche, they were just by trying to survive.
I've not used their OS but have been thinking for a while, and spent some time in their forums. I remember some dev saying this along those lines.
I suggest reading a bit about the brotherly relationship between Finland and Russia- it has not been exactly a Winter Wonderland.
Not to mention the most bloody war on European soil in a century - started by Russia.