Our community manager has provided a response to the recent LWN article on GrapheneOS with important corrections and context:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1031454/
The article had significant inaccuracies about the history of GrapheneOS, our organization and the details of what we provide.
Prior to the publication of the article, LWN contacted us with a few basic questions. Our community manager replied. It was a short email from them and a short reply from us. We weren't given a chance to address most of the claims made by the article and our response was presented quite strangely.
Following the article being published, our community manager sent an earlier version of what's written at https://lwn.net/Articles/1031454/ as a follow-up email with the hope the article would receive corrections. The response was LWN has a policy against substantive changes to articles after publication.
We would have greatly preferred the article being improved based on verifiable facts over replying to it. LWN suggested that we reply to the article since they were unwilling to edit it and provided our community manager with a subscriber account to provide our response, which we recommend reading.
GrapheneOS was started as an open source project in 2014. One of the previous names of the project was CopperheadOS and a company called Copperhead was co-founded by the founder of GrapheneOS in late 2015. We split from Copperhead in 2018 after their takeover attempt and continued development.
If you want to read the LWN article, https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/ is a link they provide for sharing articles with non-subscribers. Please read our response at https://lwn.net/Articles/1031454/ too.