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The last two times I bought a smartphone, I deliberately chose a slightly older model that was proven to be fully supported by Cyanogenmod. I never even bothere
by kijin 10y ago
The last two times I bought a smartphone, I deliberately chose a slightly older model that was proven to be fully supported by Cyanogenmod. I never even bothered to explore the stock ROM on those phones. I rooted them and installed Cyanogenmod as soon as I confirmed that the hardware was working.
I'm planning to get a new phone sometime in the next 6 months, but I don't plan to check for Cyanogenmod compatibility this time. I have no idea what's going on with that company these days. The future of Cyanogenmod seems to be getting more uncertain and less open every time I hear an announcement like this.
We have no need for the Year of Linux on the Desktop anymore, because Linux on the Phone already commands a very large market share. Unfortunately, every year the Android ecosystem feels less like the Linux I know and love, and more like just another proprietary platform. I hope I'm wrong. I hope Cyanogenmod and other Android forks thrive. But in the meantime, I'll have to use a non-Cyanogenmod phone.
- Tajnymag 10y agoSir, you are unfortunately misinterpreting the article. Cyanogen does not equal Cyanogenmod. CyanogenOS is a Cyanogenmod fork with added binaries and Microsoft apps added by default. It's available and maintained only for a certain amount of devices. This news doesn't have any connection whatsoever to the open-source project named Cyanogenmod
- lima 10y agoBut aren't they running the build servers and everything?
- Tajnymag 10y agoI haven't found anything about that. The last update post I've found is from 2012. At that time, Cyanogenmod was running their own servers. Personally, I don't think Cyanogen is in charge of the CM build servers
- martey 10y agohttps://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road "Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM)." A close reading of the original blog post (which mentions "Cyanogen-supported nightly builds" being stopped and provides a workaround to "anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally") clearly suggests that the post is primarily about the CyanogenMod build servers, and not about CyanogenOS.
- kijin 10y agoThe leadership and financial stability of a major sponsor and decision-maker does have an impact on the future of any open-source project. Especially if said sponsor did their best to make it look like they were the official guardian of the project.
- sangnoir 10y agoOf note in this instance is that the VC-backed for-profit sponsor was established years after the project itself was self-sufficient. Also the original project founder is onboard with the fork
- amiga-workbench 10y agoTake a look at Sailfish OS or Ubuntu Touch, Android always was a proprietary platform, with ever more functionality going unmaintained and being absorbed into Google Play Services.