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CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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How did the CEO do this? What strings do you pull to get someone banned for Reddit whistleblowing? Who on the Reddit staff might "fence" his request?

Emotions seem to be running pretty high.

It's possible the developer did something that left Reddit little choice but to suspend him.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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post #7

Nothing will be left here but ruins.

History is full of co-creators having a fallout and then being willing to burn whatever they made to the ground rather than give an inch to the other guy. Sadly, this looks like it will be yet another example.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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As far as I can tell, both the CEO and the developer have behaved very unprofessionally during this whole affair, airing their grievances and their dirty laundry on public forums. I don’t think I would trust either of them to run a company or maintain a trustworthy codebase. They should consider the damage they are doing to their reputations and start acting like adults.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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post #4

Out of the loop here... What whistle did he blow? Anyone have a tldr?

CopperheadOS was spearheaded by two people (to my understanding): the founder, and the lead developer. They had a falling out. The developer felt that the founder had compromised their ideals in order to make money (how this was done has not been detailed). The founder told the developer that he's out. The developer, in turn, deleted the signing keys so that no new software can be published under the CopperheadOS nam…

It was never a very secure OS / product / distro if a single individual was able to destroy the signing keys in this fashion.

If this personal battle is enough for folks to say the whole thing is now compromised, and one person held all the keys, how do you know he hadn’t been compromised before? If the code has no third party audits, or a web of trust, then it was never secure to begin with.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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I don't think it's over for CopperheadOS, but it is over for that name. Like Cyanogen changing to LineageOS, the dev who deleted his signing keys will probably just foke a new code base with a new name.

Obviously it won't be as peaceful a transition Cyanogen->Lineage, but that's my prediction for this Android variant in the next few months.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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As far as I can tell, both the CEO and the developer have behaved very unprofessionally during this whole affair, airing their grievances and their dirty laundry on public forums. I don’t think I would trust either of them to run a company or maintain a trustworthy codebase. They should consider the damage they are doing to their reputations and start acting like adults.

Could you explain this (honest question)? Why would you trust a Machiavellian (open face/closed thoughts) more than someone actually stating his opinion in public?

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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As far as I can tell, both the CEO and the developer have behaved very unprofessionally during this whole affair, airing their grievances and their dirty laundry on public forums. I don’t think I would trust either of them to run a company or maintain a trustworthy codebase. They should consider the damage they are doing to their reputations and start acting like adults.

I'm not sure what you expect from the developer, to just take it? He doesn't have power in the company because even though he's a 50% shareholder, he's not on the board of directors.
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