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deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, a lot of lead devs in fantastic FOSS software have pretty limited patience. I’ve read plenty of that guy’s discourse, and while I think he could be more diplomatic, I don’t see any reason to suspect he’s doing anything malicious with the project.

  I’m personally totally fine using GrapheneOS. If you aren’t, there are plenty of alternatives.

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Limited patience” is understandable, but the behavior of the GrapheneOS dev is completely different. I’ve personally interacted with them not too long ago, and nothing has changed since the public accusations from a year ago.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s fair. I personally don’t interact with him, nor do I plan to (why would I?), so it really doesn’t bother me. As long as the other devs can manage dealing with him and the quality of the code stays high, I’m happy. If the other devs leave the project, I’ll look for forks.

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• Kopy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He isn’t on the project since last year. androguru

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  • airglow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s dubious, since the “former” lead developer is still referring to the project with the pronoun “we” on social media.

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    • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can still be part of a project without being lead, to be part of the “we.” Did he contribute and/or is he part of GrapheneOS, yes? So he’s part of the “we.”

      Or does only the lead developer get the “we?” Wouldn’t that make it more of an “I” instead?

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      • airglow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was responding to a comment that claimed “he isn’t on the project since last year”. Based on his activity on social media, he is clearly still in the project.

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      • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You should remember that he founded the original CopperheadOS project (from which he was violently ousted by his cofounder) and has been working on it and this for a decade.

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    His github says otherwise

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    • Kopy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It states that he is the “Founder of @GrapheneOS”, not the current lead developer. So I don’t get your point

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      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        His activity on GrapheneOS repositories, issues, etc. indicates he’s still very active in development and in the community.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know Daniel somewhat, and calling him extremely toxic is just wrong. He is and has always been rather bad at communication and is clearly on the spectrum in some way. Technically a genius person, but perhaps doesn’t have the right set of qualities to lead things.

  Very good decision from him to withdraw from social media.

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    is clearly on the spectrum in some way

    This is not an excuse to behave the way he does.

    Very good decision from him to withdraw from social media

    He hasn’t, still on github, still on HN.

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• nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as long as they do good work i don’t give a shit what they think

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• shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So? Bad people can make good things. We should all stop using Linux because Torvalds is a dick?

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• mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  might be toxic, but the os is brilliant

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• MoonlightFox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Louis Rossman’s video describes his behavior in public spaces accurately: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

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