albert180

It’s just one less unnecessary risk you need to take (that your Distributor is acting in bad faith on the demand of a foreign government), there is no 100% certainty.

Also as a big state customer you can afford to paid for code audits and more developer resources.

Especially if you pool the costs over a huge base like the whole public sector in the EU. (The amount of money they pay for Microsoft Licensing would buy a huge amount of manpower)

No, but there is evidence that the British secret services already tried to secretly force Apple into building a backdoor in their encrypted backups.

And they could do the same to Canonical, which also provides commercial services for big customers for management of their deployments and updates.

Ubuntu is from Canonical, an UK based company. Mint is just another distribution downstream of Ubuntu

I’d hope for SUSE, UK can’t be trusted with their 5 eyes bullshit