Re: I wonder how much this is helping their sales...
"yeah really good relationship you have with your customers. NOT"
Supplying the government is subject to different rules from supplying the public, based in principle onm when the government was the biggest buyer and it was important to establish a level playing field for suppliers with strict rules to prevent bribery and corruption.
It didn't work very well (see revolving doors between armaments and "defence" departments. But the rules exist.
I imagine it doesn't help Kaspersky that they don't have any ex-generals (US) on the board. Getting US representatives on the board was what ZTE had to do to be forgiven.