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It is still a pretty unexpected reaction. Cassidy had worked for System76 and did elementary work in his free time before. Sad to see this.

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There was another article posted a month or so back with the other founders perspective. As an outsider, Cassidy seems to be the more reasonable of the two, but I can't know that for sure when viewing the whole situation through a peephole. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=...

Yeah just read that. Lunduke is apparently purposefully misgendering and dead naming Danielle Foré in that article, which is important context. But the tweets are still good background.

My main takeaway: always have a pre-nup.

Lunduke has a long history of using negative clickbait titles (the Linux sucks series and HTTPS is bad) to gain views. I'm not surprised that he has somehow found a way to milk this controversy too!

> $30k now, $70k over the next 10 years, and to keep 5% share

This is not a large amount of money and seems very, very fair for giving up 50% equity.

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