Sailfish OS: Clarifying claims about open/closed source, security and privacy

[attah]

It is of course an OS - but putting so much emphasis on it is disingenuous. It is Android, the same way as Brave is Chrome(ium).

Quoting myself - what is the difference between a Linux distro and Android?

@attah

But by nature Linux distributions are so much more diverse. They differ in core system libraries, package management, security philosophy, and perhaps most relevant to this point, desktop environment.
For the Android clones they don’t just share a kernel and happened to agree on an aspect of the other things - no, they share the entire stack. And that stack is single-source, not a huge community of independent projects.