Thank you very much for telling about this issue.
For me as an outsider to the mentioned events, it's relatively difficult to evaluate what really happened. There are aspects, I can evaluate and double-check. In this regard - i.e. without any judgment about alleged or actual behind-the-scenes events - when I read about the preliminary end of a FOSS project, I somehow feel sad.
It might have had flaws and shortcomings, but it was a fork and alternative to big tech monopoly, and it had its users across a broader hardware support (than the very narrow support of GOS). As such, I think it still had its role, and the FOSS community has therefore lost another android project after the sad end of DivestOS.
cdesai Hi,
I would like to clarify a few things about my personal involvement here.
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I would really like to leave this behind me, I don't wish any harm on anyone.
Wish you the best with your project.
Regards,
Chirayu Desai
Presuming that this is an authentic message, I'd like to thank you as well for your direct and personal response, here.
Again, for me, it is difficult to judge, what exactly happened, how these conflicts occurred, etc. (And maybe it is more important what we make from it for the future anyway. The past is written. (Unless we believe in certain hyperdimensional traveling, supernatural events, etc.)) I can however sympathize how the end of a multi-year commitment full of moving events feels.
Its a caesura.
I sincerely hope that some of the quarrels and conflicts of the past can be amended or already are. I believe that we and anyone interested in civilized societies, culture, even basic universal human rights, face technological challenges beyond measure. It could make things easier to face these challenges side by side, not as enemies. Even if ideas and approaches differ from time to time. Sometimes earlier differences can eventually merge and contribute to good solutions.