Why was I banned from GrapheneOS? That’s a good question.
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| Why I was banned from GrapheneOS by Daniel Micay) |
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Didn't he leave the project though?
He crashed and burned the Copperhead project, yes. Copperhead was just him and a business partner that he totally fucked over.
Yeah sounds about right. The only reason I'm even running graphene right now is because I heard he left the project. Otherwise I wasn't sure I wanted to be dependent on it
The business partner fucked over him by stealing a bunch of crytpo donations that were meant for CopperheadOS which later became GrapheneOS. CopperheadOS which was agreed with Donaldson to be independent from the Copperhead company which was created to support the development of Copperhead but wasn't allowed to control the CopperheadOS nor to have any ownership or copyright over the code.
They did not leave the project. They are still a developer, a director of the GrapheneOS foundation, and someone shaping the direction and quality of the operating system. They did step down in their role as lead developer though, which was taken over by another person, who is also a director. They also lowered their public social media presence on their personal accounts, in order to avoid harassment and attacks.