[rakwoelq]

Purchasing Sailfish has some geographical restrictions.

"Sailfish X is currently available in the countries of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland ("Authorized Countries") and the use of our website and services to purchase Sailfish X outside of the Authorized Countries is prohibited."[0]

https://shop.jolla.com

[m4rtink]

This is effectively just (understandable) CYA on Jollas part, likely due to the some countries respecting the insanity that are software patents.

In practice only the act of buying the actual Sailfish OS license in https://shop.jolla.com needs to be done from the the EU/supported countries. That can be done via a EU VPN and none of the Jolla provided services (RPM repositories needed for system updates, etc.) are geoblocked. I went to Japan with Sailfish OS phone twice with no issues at all.

For reference:

- getting SFOS from outside of EU:

https://together.jolla.com/question/184861/ask-purchase-sail...

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/has-jolla-abandoned-sailors-i...

- stats from the community Sailfish OS software repository showing a lot of traffic from countries outside of the officially supported area

https://openrepos.net/statistics/global

[aerique]

Yes, this is the main problem with SFOS.

I think it is because of the USA's allowance of trivial patents which act like a trade block.