There are at least a dozen people spending at least several hours attacking GrapheneOS across platforms on a daily basis.
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@aliu @Xtreix The actual content of the posts says that he was stepping down from those roles to recover from the harassment. It's quite clear from the content of the posts that he wasn't leaving the project but rather stepping away from demanding roles due to stress. Nowhere is it implied that he was leaving the project or permanently leaving as a director. That narrative comes from people engaging in harassment and they've been editing the article including linking harassment content in it.
@aliu @Xtreix Harassment content linked by the article was recently removed but there are still many leftover parts from the groups who added that content. Any approach which leads to this happening is awful. Misrepresenting primary sources to try to make a gotcha attack on GrapheneOS by twisting what was said is somehow fine but verifiable facts debunking the false narratives presented as a history of GrapheneOS are ignored. Wikipedia thoroughly fails to defend against astroturfing and trolls.
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> That said, the sources in the article
Articles based on press releases and Wikipedia aren't reliable sources. Laundering inaccurate content through authors of articles taking Wikipedia claims at face value isn't acceptable.
> gOS is meant to be the very similar successor to Copperhead
GrapheneOS is not a successor to CopperheadOS. GrapheneOS is the direct continuation of the open source project formerly known as CopperheadOS. There's plenty of verifiable info proving it.
@GrapheneOS What is with heise.de? Are they articles about GrapheneOS trustworthy?
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@KnobbyTiresOnly It isn't Apple or Google. In fact, the attacks on us have largely been put in motion by companies selling dubious products marketed as avoiding Google and giving people privacy. Those products don't actually provide what they're claiming they do and they feel very threatened by GrapheneOS. They've attacked us themselves and started their supporters going attacking us which they aren't capable of stopping even if they tried. They're doing the opposite of trying to stop it though.
@GrapheneOS There's a possibility that maybe Google (or any interested entity) doing a proxy war against the project using these small companies.
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> That said, the sources in the article
Articles based on press releases and Wikipedia aren't reliable sources. Laundering inaccurate content through authors of articles taking Wikipedia claims at face value isn't acceptable.
> gOS is meant to be the very similar successor to Copperhead
GrapheneOS is not a successor to CopperheadOS. GrapheneOS is the direct continuation of the open source project formerly known as CopperheadOS. There's plenty of verifiable info proving it.
@GrapheneOS wait I thought you wrote somewhere on the history or what that you were before making a new project named like Android hardening project over different source but not fully reusing old code. Citing possible departure over CopperheadOS since the fight over rights. Probably also considering previous work were licensed as CC making it hard to be forked. Then later renamed as GrapheneOS or such.
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@GrapheneOS wait I thought you wrote somewhere on the history or what that you were before making a new project named like Android hardening project over different source but not fully reusing old code. Citing possible departure over CopperheadOS since the fight over rights. Probably also considering previous work were licensed as CC making it hard to be forked. Then later renamed as GrapheneOS or such.
Idk, I have vague memory when I was researching it and it's all feeling like puzzle that this is likely something like if LineageOS just depart from Cyanogen. But this part, Cyanogen already have a license that makes it possible to fork, just fork old repo. And Idk much of the history of GrapheneOS. So it's direct successor aka. fork?
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@GrapheneOS There's a possibility that maybe Google (or any interested entity) doing a proxy war against the project using these small companies.
@joe9nf Google definitely isn't doing it. They're not particularly hostile towards us specifically. We know of multiple companies directly involved in it especially since they directly use their project and personal accounts for it to wield their supporters as a weapon.
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Idk, I have vague memory when I was researching it and it's all feeling like puzzle that this is likely something like if LineageOS just depart from Cyanogen. But this part, Cyanogen already have a license that makes it possible to fork, just fork old repo. And Idk much of the history of GrapheneOS. So it's direct successor aka. fork?
@kouki21 GrapheneOS is the original open source project started in 2014. We have the original repositories created prior to 2018 with several dating back to 2014 and 2015. GrapheneOS was created prior to the Copperhead company and ownership or control of the project was explicitly never turned over to the company. There was a clear agreement between the open source project and the company that it remained independent. This is why Copperhead's legal attacks on us failed.
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GrapheneOS started in 2014 and was originally named CopperheadOS. In late 2015, the Copperhead company was founded which was meant to support the project. Copperhead didn't create CopperheadOS and didn't own or control it. Copperhead made a failed takeover attempt on it in 2018.
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@GrapheneOS wait I thought you wrote somewhere on the history or what that you were before making a new project named like Android hardening project over different source but not fully reusing old code. Citing possible departure over CopperheadOS since the fight over rights. Probably also considering previous work were licensed as CC making it hard to be forked. Then later renamed as GrapheneOS or such.
@kouki21 GrapheneOS is the original open source project started in 2014. We have the original repositories created prior to 2018 with several dating back to 2014 and 2015. GrapheneOS was created prior to the Copperhead company and ownership or control of the project was explicitly never turned over to the company. There was a clear agreement between the open source project and the company that it remained independent. This is why Copperhead's legal attacks on us failed.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
GrapheneOS started in 2014 and was originally named CopperheadOS. In late 2015, the Copperhead company was founded which was meant to support the project. Copperhead didn't create CopperheadOS and didn't own or control it. Copperhead made a failed takeover attempt on it in 2018.
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@GrapheneOS @Xtreix If there's already a post on the gOS website somewhere that says Micay will not be succeeded by a different director or whatever you want to add, feel free to link it! As I've mentioned, that should be usable as a primary source.
@aliu @Xtreix We're not going to give you more things you can misrepresent as part of the existing attacks on the GrapheneOS project by Wikipedia contributors. You folks are misrepresenting public statements by GrapheneOS and warping what was said into a gotcha. Why would we give you more so that you can add another sentence to the article continuing the attempt at misrepresenting what happened as a gotcha? Why would we help you justify including it in the first place? We know what you're doing.
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@Xtreix @GrapheneOS Your edit had the pretty big problem of replacing sourced content with unsourced content that sometimes uses buzzwords, after which you didn't engage in [discussion the revert pointed you to](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:GrapheneOS/Archive_4#Special:Diff/1324505725). That said, the sources in the article do seem enough to say that Micay was a co-founder and that gOS is meant to be the very similar successor to Copperhead. Without contradicting information from other editors I'm sure I can add this.
@aliu @GrapheneOS Hi, It seems you believe that I work for and contribute to GrapheneOS, but that is not the case, let’s be clear about that.
So please do not assume that I am a member of the GrapheneOS team, thank you.
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