James Donaldson is following through with seizing control of Copperhead and Copperhead infrastructure. He's untrustworthy and I consider the company and infrastructure to be compromised. I will be treating this as a serious compromise and preventing him from harming any users.

James has even threatened to seize control of my personal GPG key that I created in 2009/2010 when I started packaging for the official Arch Linux repositories. I don't have an understanding of why he is taking these actions. It's completely illogical and extremely destructive.

Note that James Donaldson doesn't have access to my signing keys and I have prevented that from ever happening in any scenario. By the infrastructure being compromised, I mean he registered copperhead.co domain on his personal account so he can take it over via DNS.

argh, good luck!

When I saw James' tweet earlier today, I thought he meant that you two worked it out 😭

good luck man, your work has been nothing short of spectacular and seeing this project getting destroyed over a personal dispute is just a shame :/ hope you end up with a better CEO and a proper team of devs supporting you...

Daniel you no i am a big fan of yours and all you have done, having had a meeting with James today and looked at the legal documents you posted it’s clear that James offered you three posts and has tried to rectify this situation even offering you a holiday and then2meet up 1/2

Copperhead is a business and James has it’s best interests at heart so it can become what it is destined to be. James at no stage aired any dirty linen in public as this is very unprofessional. I hope hou take a step back and let the red cloud disperse and lets all move forward

how exactly is that supposed to work?

Make sure to put your revocation certificate on a USB into a safe deposit box at your bank. Preferably one he can’t access. If worst comes to worst publish it.

This is completely unacceptable.

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So sad to hear this! I hope it'll work out somehow for you!

Good. It's been a pile of shit since it was monetized and this is a long time coming after the user-base was disenfranchised.

You aren't entitled to my work for free any more than James is entitled to steal it when I haven't ever sold or handed over copyright ownership to Copperhead. You people are no different really. All of you are just looking to exploit someone for their work and toss them aside.

Who are you.

Who are you?

A beyond trying to be paying client that has been thrown aside (I have a Sailfish, check Reddit). Honestly, and maybe this is out of character to a fellow Canadian: I hope this fails.

You hope what fails? You don't need to convince me that the business was run totally incompetently despite having something that could have been enormously successful. Forcing out the person that developed everything and owns a substantial portion of the code is just more of it.

Yeah I stand by the initial assertion: who are you.

Daniel Micay, the person that email is addressed towards. The person that built CopperheadOS only to be completely screwed over with almost nothing to show for all of that work.

It seems like you think you're talking to James. I had nothing to do with sales. I only handled the technical side of things and that's completely over now. I apparently no longer work for Copperhead. Look at the names in the email. I think you have it backwards.

This is outrageous !

This needs to to be cleared up with real arguments and facts Daniel. I understand your position but for users sake - could you PLEASE calm down and put together an article with facts, signed by your pgp key, and ask publicly James to react? This will help us all.

thanks for your foresight :) great work with copperhead! it's a shame it's gone now <3