170 sats \ 1 reply \ @final 17 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: Help Installing Graphene on Pixel 7 tech
Statement from GrapheneOS team here: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/110461674240938541
Full disclosure: I have supported the project for a LONG time so I may appear to have some objective bias
There is still a lot more context to it, If I had to explain the whole situation with how this developer was acting this way, it would be as long as third of this web page. So a very cut down TLDR:
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He is the founder and was the lead developer prior to this video being made. He has reduced his role and will eventually leave the project entirely to fix his mental state. He has not been involved in GrapheneOS development months either prior. He will only be in the GrapheneOS Foundation non-profit when it is over (I consider this a benefit, he is extremely intelligent).
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GrapheneOS used to be a former project with a different name developed by the same person for a company. The co-founder of that company fired him and took all his work away and then tried to sue him. He was fired because he disagreed over certain company politics and that this co-founder was trying to co-operate the project with a military contractor (Raytheon).
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He was swatted multiple times and gets attacks from supporters of competitor projects after his address was leaked by that same company.
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He (and a lot of the GrapheneOS team) have a strong attitude to correct information about mobile security and privacy posted online. He frequently makes comparisons of security flaws from competitors and other projects. This behaviour sometimes makes a couple of enemies.
After a lot of the shit he went through he has a strong zero-tolerance to not work with anyone who endorses his competitors and/or who attacked him. A lot of it has damaged his mental state in the past, so he does not put up with it at all.
Its not in the video but Louis says this was about him posting a YouTube comment criticising the developer, when if you look at the Google Docs folder in the description it contains emails about Louis paying $40,000 to a competitor that has security and privacy issues - he explains those issues in strong detail. The YouTube comment was a tiny component to the disagreement he has.
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