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Here I was all this time (several years) thinking CyanogenMod was a product by (Android) hackers for (Android) hackers. Now, I find out it's a product by a comp
by cr0sh 10y ago
Here I was all this time (several years) thinking CyanogenMod was a product by (Android) hackers for (Android) hackers. Now, I find out it's a product by a company...?
WTF?
I've never used it (and the following is just me talking from my nether regions), but I've always kept it "in my back pocket" as something someday to try out. Why? Because in my mind, it was "non-corporate" - made for the love of the platform, not for money.
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe where things went wrong was when they tried to monetize stuff. Stop doing that - everything isn't about money.
Or at least, it shouldn't be. More often than not, especially in projects like these, money can corrupt and screw up the whole project.
So fork it. Get back to the community, back to the roots. Quit trying to become "the rich guy" - and go back to being "the hacker dude bring cool 5h!7 to the community". Don't even think about the money. If its really worth something, the money will magically appear. Even if it doesn't, what does it matter? It's about the love of the platform, right?
RIGHT?
So fork it. The community will follow, and not look back at what once was, but will look forward to what can be.
- ozten 10y agoIt is both a company (https://cyngn.com/ https://cyngn.com/) and a open source community (https://www.cyanogenmod.org/ https://www.cyanogenmod.org/).
- cr0sh 10y agoI guess I just never knew about the "company" part. I should probably review the history of the project, how it started, whether it started "corporate" with an open-source community (nothing wrong with that), or if it was originally a community effort started by somebody(s) then morphed into a company too...? I'm not expecting an answer from you or anyone - it's my responsibility to do the research of course.
- pachydermic 10y agoIt was a non-commercial open source project at first. Then they decided to go found a company and get hardware partners to have CyanogenMod phones. The time to try it was like 3-4 years ago!
- tdkl 10y agoYou could do a bit of research first. CyanogenMod = Android project started by cyanogen (Steve Kondik) Cyanogen = company started later by cyanogen (Steve Kondik) and others. The main selling idea was to provide vendors with it. CyanogenMod project was still operating all this time.