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Sir, you are unfortunately misinterpreting the article. Cyanogen does not equal Cyanogenmod. CyanogenOS is a Cyanogenmod fork with added binaries and Microsoft
by Tajnymag 10y ago
Sir, 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