Subject MY GOOGLE-FREE ANDROID LIFE
From Gaël Duval <gael@e.email>
To <anxhelo@lushka.al>
Date 2018-11-13 20:17

Hi Anxhelo,

I noticed your article at https://lushka.al/my-android-setup/

I very surprised by your statements:

EDIT: Someone emailed me to say that my article is exactly what /e/ does and is targeted to. I wanted to say thank you for reaching out but that is not true at all. The reasoning behind my opinion about /e/ can also be found in this website, but I'll list a few of the reasons here.

eelo is a "foundation" that got over 200K € in funding from Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, promising to create a mobile OS and web services that are open and secure and protect your privacy.

  1. Their OS is based on LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1) with microG and other open source apps with it, which already exists for a long time now and it's called Lineage for microG.
  2. Instead of building all apps from the source code, they download the APKs from APKPure and put them in the ROM, without knowing if those APKs contain proprietary code/malware in them.
  3. At one point, they were literally just removing the Lineage copyright header from their code and adding theirs.
  4. They love to delete negative feedback and censor their users' opinions in their Telegram group chat.

In conclusion, I don't recommend using /e/ ROM-s.


I can understand that our project may be not interesting for anyone, but writing such FUD is just not acceptable and is very insulting for the team of developers who have been working on the project for 10 months now.

Just look at the figure of 200K€, check the facts. Wrong.

/e/ is not stealing any source code, we're forking LineageOS because we want to bring something different, as explained in all my articles, including different choices of apps, different UI, and our own ecosystem of dedicated online services that work closely with the ROM.

Check at all the projects opened at https://gitlab.e.foundation and you can see how /e/ is "just" LineageOS+microG...

You remind me the guys who whined after Ubuntu at the begning, claiming it was just Debian after all.

It would be very appreciated that you remove your false statement words about /e/.

Regards,

Gaël