What are your thoughts on Louis Rossmann?
What are your thoughts on Louis Rossmann?
I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
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He's mostly correct about lots of things, but not about everything (for example, he hated on everything GrapheneOS just because its lead dev is a bit socially awkward). Plus he's overly dramatic and verbose which can be annoying. Sometimes you must be to get abstract or complicated points across better, but I still feel he's too aggressive in that regard. I also like what he's trying to achieve with FUTO in general. Overall, he's a great and valuable activist who has almost all of his eggs in the right baskets.
its lead dev is a bit socially awkward
Heh. You're being gentle, and that's good. But that's maybe understating it a bit.
I've seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.
It's okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.
Out of interest (because I know nothing whatsoever about GrapheneOS), how does its lead compare to Linus Torvald?
I don't follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.
In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald's worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I've seen.
He said he wasn't going to use GrapheneOS anymore because Daniel Micay threatened to blackmail him because Rossman had made a comment on a video describing his behavior online.
Blackmail?
The dev threatened to "expose" him for supposedly supporting people swatting his house.