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GrapheneOS · 45w
GrapheneOS was founded as an open source project in 2014. In 2018, there was a takeover attempt on the project by Copperhead which was a for-profit company founded in late 2015. Copperhead was meant t...
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Chirayu Desai was a full time employee of Copperhead. The CEO intended for him to be lead developer of a new closed source OS forked from our project. Nicolas Merrill was in active contact with Copperhead and wanted an OS made for Calyx. When the takeover failed, he hired Chiyaru to make CalyxOS.
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GrapheneOS · 45w
CalyxOS never incorporated privacy or security features comparable to GrapheneOS. It was always a non-hardened OS far more similar to LineageOS and /e/. Despite being in a different space, Nick and Chirayu worked hard to undermine the continuation of our open source project alongside Copperhead.