Goodbye, Copperhead
https://h4ck3r9.com/copperhead-affair.html#copperhead-affair
Here are my thoughts on Copperhead and its situation... so sad, but there is some contructive criticism there too! Plan for the future! Okay, that's all I'm going to tell you, go read it!
@h4ck3r9
Good job. I see a future where FOSS projects include, in their repository, a document detailing their loss of people plan such that anyone in the brain trust should come to an unexpected, early demise or just lose it and bug out, they will continue. In the old gender exclusive days, we called things like these a one man show. You didn't want to get heavily invested in a one man show.
@DistroJunkie it would certainly be a litmus test for a project's longevity. I think the projects that include such a plan and document would make it much easier to determine if it's worth investing the time in a project, also it would help verify that the Void Linux and Copperhead tragedies don't happen to the software you want to use.
I've been watching Copperhead closely since the early days, when they were still releasing Galaxy S4 binaries. Running it since early 2016
I guess the power was, in a very haphazard & unplanned way, decentralized. Daniel had the keys, twitter, reddit & has amazing tech skills. James had the domain, control of corporation, contact with clients
Daniel saying he should have not let James get in a position where he had complete control of the company. I guess it may not have...
@h4ck3r9 ... felt likely that James would try such a move and ultimately Daniel had the keys.
Cant really imagine many projects figuring out & setting things up to cover many possible eventualities, especially at the start when concentrating on building the thing. Unless they come from big corporates.
Think with community projects even more so as sorting this kind of governance/power stuff, for most people, isnt such great fun & takes time/energy, skills and money to do right
#Copperhead
@h4ck3r9 That email is hilarious, in a dark sort of way. It reads like the CEO is trying *really hard* to sound all official and lawyer-ly, but doesn't quite know how to pull it off.
"As previously (and repeatedly requested), you are to forthwith provide the Company with access to all company related material of which you have access"
1) Not how parentheses work
2) No justification is provided, just bluster. *All* materials? Public ones?
3) "forthwith"? Seriously?