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I get that there are issues. But, if GrapheneOS wants a partner that shares FOSS values, why not work through those? You’ve got a company that is probably like 90% of the way there vs. one that is just another corporate behemoth. Help the good guys get that extra 10%. Also, most of the complaints in that post are about /e/OS and not Fairphone, so would be mitigated just by virtue of using GrapheneOS instead of /e/OS
From what I remember, GrapheneOS team have strict security requirements and Fairphone is just not interested to meet them.
To be clear, I think part of it is that Fairphone wants hardware with long-term support so they can continue supplying replacement parts, but they also aren't big enough to manufacture their own parts from scratch - so they end up needing to use hardware that GrapheneOS deems as lacking critical security features.
Though of course there are the parts GrapheneOS said about security updates being late and unsafe signing keys being used, which are independent from hardware.