From c5a650e3e6d6ceb3b785707d902180ef17670fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:11:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] more info on the early days --- static/index.html | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/index.html b/static/index.html index 554db055..bf8bd2aa 100644 --- a/static/index.html +++ b/static/index.html @@ -74,14 +74,23 @@

GrapheneOS was founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014. It started as a solo project - incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work.

+ incorporating his previous open source privacy/security work. The project initially + created a port of OpenBSD malloc to Android's Bionic libc and a port of the PaX kernel + patches to the kernels for the supported devices. It quickly expanded to having a + large set of homegrown privacy and security improvements, particularly low-level + hardening work on the compiler toolchain and Bionic. Work began on landing code + upstream in AOSP and other upstream projects. A substantial portion of these early + changes were either successfully landed upstream or heavily influenced the upstream + changes which replaced them. The project was able to move very quickly in these days + because there was so much low hanging fruit to address and it wasn't yet trying to + produce a highly robust, production quality OS.

In late 2015, a company was incorporated which became the primary sponsor of the project. The intention was to use the company to build a business around GrapheneOS selling support, contract work and customized proprietary variants of the OS. The company was supposed to serve the needs of the open source project, rather than vice versa. It was explicitly agreed that GrapheneOS would remain independently owned and - controlled by Daniel Micay. The company failed to live up the promises and is no + controlled by Daniel Micay. This company failed to live up the promises and is no longer associated in any way with GrapheneOS.

The former sponsor attempted to take over the project through coercion, but they