We’re supporting a lot LineageOS and I don’t feel in any manner in
competition with LineageOS because we do not folow the same goals.
LineageOS is the heritage of CyanogenMOD and they have their own vision.
The initial plan is to offer AOSP on many devices, and they are bringing
some nice improvements at the same time. People with technical knowledge
can reach a good level of privacy tweaking LineageOS for their own needs
and that’s cool.
On our hand, /e/ is not a low-level (understand “hardware support”)
project, we’ve a quest for better privacy at the OS level and later at
application level, and our quest is to bring something viable to a large
number of people, including “Mom and Dad”, people who have 0 technical
knowledge and don’t want to spend time customizing their OS.
So we will be very supportive of LineageOS and I hope eventually we can
partner since I think we are complementary projects.
Cheers,
Gaël