So yeah, unless you are a diehard XDA fanboy which drolls over the XDA logo when you look at the back of the phone, I cannot see any reason why anyone should buy one.
Let me know your thoughts though, I'd love to know the reasons why you would disagree 😉
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You're forgetting privacy enthusiasts who do not want to mess with their device and want to have a google free phone with a keyboard out of the box.
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isn't copperos just a better version of graphene ? or I'm totally wrong ?
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No, CopperheadOS is a closed source fork of our legacy code.
GrapheneOS is the non-profit open source project created in 2014. CopperheadOS is a branded build of AOSP without substantial privacy and security hardening. It doesn't have current Android security updates either.
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Now I am confused ? You worked for copperhead in 2015 and went to graphene in 2018? It existed in 2014?
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GrapheneOS has existed as an open source project since 2014 and was based on my earlier work before that time. The project initially didn't have a name and was then known as CopperheadOS from a period in early 2015 to mid 2018. There are still changes around from 2014 / 2015.
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I've never been an employee of Copperhead. I have never had any employment agreement or salary from them.
In 2018, after they stopped sponsoring the open source project, they claimed money sent to me that year was a salary but without any employment agreement or salary set up.
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You can see our repositories on GitHub originate with the beginning of the project being based on AOSP rather than CyanogenMod:
github.com/GrapheneOS/pla
These are the repositories the project used since it was known as CopperheadOS Beta. The current 'CopperheadOS' is a fork.
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And to be clear, it's a fork of our legacy code without our modern privacy / security hardening work, and without actually porting forward / maintaining the vast majority of the legacy work. The new 'CopperheadOS' is a branded build of AOSP masquerading as hardened. It's not...
GrapheneOS is not a company. I never 'went' to Graphene. It is the new name of the project I started in 2014, building upon my earlier work on Linux kernel and userspace hardening.
I co-founder Copperhead to have a sponsor for my open source work. It never owned my projects.
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I still own 50% of Copperhead. I'm the co-owner of the company, with half of the voting shares. It's my company as much as it is James Donaldson's company. Unfortunately my rights as a shareholder have been disregarded along with the commitments made by the company. It's sad.
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