Why SailfishOS?

Because it is non USA! And it is an established Linux-distro for mobile devices. We want to move away from Android and iOS completely.

Sailfish OS

Sailfish OS’s heritage lies in Nokia times. 
In 2018 Sailfish OS matured to its third generation offering a packetized, secure solution for various corporate and governmental environments, and a smooth and secure mobile OS for tech-savvy consumers through the Sailfish X community program.

SailfishOS The forum
  1. The device. I bought a Jolla Community phone. Just an other smartphone. I inserted my SIM card. Started it. Gone through their installation steps. And it works.
  2. First experience. A bid sluggish device, but solid! Certainly not top-notch. No touch fingerprint to unlock, only PIN code.
  3. pCloud access. Dropbox; NextCloud and OneDrive are direct available, pCloud and protonDrive are not!
  4. Vivaldi Browser. Also not possible!
  5. Look and feel. Solid.
  6. The QT license issue. The UI of SailfishOS is QT based. Technical this is great! But its licensing schema seems to be an issue in the market for adopting it more widely. This is a legal issue, not a technical one. I bump into this legal issue more and more while trying to escape from USA based big-tech. Making it clear that, the US$, legal environment has become a progress blocking rather than a progress pushing one.
    Therefore, I started working on a new legal framework for community-driven software development. FOSS has clearly NOT been the solution. I'm therefore initiating non-profit-open-source.org.
    We would like Jolla-Phone to come with a (payed) Sailfish-OS update subscription. According to our Non profit open-source principles. And QT to become part of Sailfish and free available for developers, so that more Sailfish apps will be made and become available in the Jolla store.
  7. KeyPhone: What becomes clear is: The need to uncouple personal key device (usually called smart-phone) from linked cloud-accounts. The law should give the freedom to choose the operating system and linked cloud environment independently of the device. You should be able to run AndoidGoogle on a iPhone; iOS on any compatible KeyPhone and SailfishOS on an iPhone or any compatible KeyPhone. Any KeyPhone should have an OS-MicoSD card slot to put the OS of your choice in.