He gets away with it because he makes a high quality OS that people want to use. I don’t see it as much worse than e.g. using Linux when Torvalds is kind of an asshole.
Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, “that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well.” Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS’ development. I can’t keep up with all news on it, I’m not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.
He’s certainly “unique”.
I feel like he only gets away with it because people find the Dev of a privacy OS being incredibly paranoid somewhat reassuring…
He gets away with it because he makes a high quality OS that people want to use. I don’t see it as much worse than e.g. using Linux when Torvalds is kind of an asshole.
“kind of an asshole” is a huge understatement. He’s said some truly unforgivable things
What unforgivable things has he said?
There are other reasons to not use Linux, but Linux (+glibc +systemd +libinput…) is basically “the Unix” nowadays…
Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, “that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well.” Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS’ development. I can’t keep up with all news on it, I’m not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.