If I was building that kind of large platform, I'd want to do it on top of something that I could self-host. Thankfully, I don't work on anything like that and have no plans for it. The kinds of services we need are all static file servers or services without cross-account data.
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I don't think they ever seriously considered that it would be difficult to find hosting. Hosting user-generated content with nearly non-existent moderation is enough to make that a problem even without going out of the way to attract the audience that they brought over to it.
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They don't realize their party has gone completely off the rails. They genuinely see it as creating a social media platform for conservatives in the US. They don't realize that's not what they are anymore or what they created. So glad that I don't live in the US. It's unreal.
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GrapheneOS is open source.
See opensource.org/osd for more information on what that means.
Open source licensing permits anyone respecting requirements like attribution to use it:
> No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
> No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
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Can expect a further statement from about it. To be clear, we aren't working with them or supporting them. People being legally allowed to use the software is different from us wanting them to use it. They're hardly the first problematic company using our software.
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No. Haven't contacted them at all. Maybe they saw those 3 tweets and realized that they shouldn't be calling it a phone running if it's running their own OS based on it. It's not clear to us what they are actually doing so we didn't specifically talk about them.
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Our tweets explained GrapheneOS is open source and can be used by anyone following the rules in our copyright licenses and for our trademarks. It stressed the importance of following the rules. If it's a fork of GrapheneOS it should be presented that way. I don't know what it is.
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If they rebrand it and bundle apps, that's not a lot of work. If that's what they're doing, they should say it's based on GrapheneOS rather than implying they ship GrapheneOS itself. Trademark law is simple to respect: present it in an accurate way where users don't get misled.
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