Likely going to have very positive news to announce about GrapheneOS in the near future.
It's unfortunate that others decided to pick up the torch of fighting an underhanded war against us after Copperhead started to stop. The past month SHOULD have been a huge relief, but no...
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Nevertheless, there's probably going to be some great news. I hope others realize that waging a misguided war against us is not going to work out to their benefit and they can either stop or destroy themselves in the long run. I'll happily put very substantial resources into it.
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One consequence of all the nonsense with Copperhead was lack of time to hire people. Now we have a lot of money we need to spend along with a lot more time and resources being freed up. I'll happily spend a substantial amount paying people to counter any further shenanigans.
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Leave us alone and let us build our OS, apps and hardware in peace. Don't confuse our lack of marketing, etc. with lack of resources to do it.
I don't think it's a good use of money but draining resources of organizations harming us will save time/energy and I will 100% do it.
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I think people greatly underestimate the resources we have available. It has been extremely difficult to get anything done because of the legal nonsense, etc.
I didn't have energy to find people to hire and didn't know how much money would be needed for the legal stuff, etc.
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That time and money should now be able to go towards the project. I lack patience for more of this nonsense and I care about GrapheneOS a lot.
Burning so much money on legal fees has given me a new perspective. $5k/month fighting back against people bothering us is the norm.
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Most donations to GrapheneOS were made with Bitcoin. We sat on most of it for the past few years as a legal fund. It's a lot of money.
It's going to fund a lot of development work. I don't need any of it, and haven't taken any BTC/Monero for myself. It's for hiring other people.
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I want to hire developers to build useful things with it, not pay for lawyers, private investigators, documentation countering attacks, fact-based advertising campaigns against malicious parties, etc. We didn't do that not because we couldn't but because it would be a waste.
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I'm entirely willing to start dedicating substantial resources to bringing all this nonsense to an end though. I don't have any patience left for it.
No point of having those resources if people are determined to make things a non-stop hell where we can't focus on our projects.
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