I don't have the knowledge now nor am I likely to in the future to understand what happened between these guys. Daniel has provided info on Twitter and has been known to be helpful to the community, J at Copperhead has been amazing with correcting any technical misunderstandings
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... I have had as well as being very transparent about where his company is going now. From my perspective, the target customer base is quite different and you may want to evaluate the respective sustainability of the business models but both OS's are security wise, world class.
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GrapheneOS is an open source project. It's supported by businesses rather than being a business itself. CopperheadOS is not open source and is no longer even source available. They ripped off my legacy work and fraudulently claim ownership over it. What do you think they do?
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All they've really done is pay inexperienced / cheap developers to do a poor job porting my legacy code to newer releases, along with adding DRM/tracking and other changes tied to their business. They do not do any real privacy/security research or engineering work...
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I'm not here for a history lesson with all due respect. I'm just here to run the code.
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You aren't welcome to do that. I'm not giving you a history lesson. I'm letting you know that you're complicit in abuse and harm perpetrated on myself and others. The only reason that has gone on for so long and caused so much damage is people continuing to support that company.
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Betraying the arrangements made with the project, taking over the infrastructure preventing any further updates to existing devices, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations, spending years making false / damaging claims about myself and GrapheneOS, harassing myself
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and other developers with threats, ultimatums and gaslighting, making fraudulent / retroactive edits to accounting to screw me over including filing an inaccurate tax filing, filing a fraudulent registration of copyright to my work after breaking ties with the project, and more.
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I didn't do any of that, sunshine
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I said that were complicit in it and are enabling it by whitewashing James Donaldson and being supportive of him. I never said that you did any of it. I said that you were an enabler, and the same applies to anyone else lending them any kind of support, financial or marketing.
“Hi Max,
I really don’t want to be associated with Copperhead at all, even in a tweet where you respond diplomatically to someone who is asking about our messy history. I disagree with your assessment. Could you not follow me on Twitter and not use my software. Thank you”.
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My issue is not with you associating me with them. I still own 50% of Copperhead and have an ongoing legal battle with them due to their ongoing fraud and attacks on me. They were the former sponsor who betrayed the project. If you accurately reference what happened, no problem.
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