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My best bet would be to restart/re-instantiate a community around CyanogenMod/Lineage OS, Android being F/OSS after all. Though maybe the community around CM is

My best bet would be to restart/re-instantiate a community around CyanogenMod/Lineage OS, Android being F/OSS after all. Though maybe the community around CM is still strong (I honestly don't know). Question is, are you willing to spend money (or testing/integration efforts) on a community O/S for your phone in exchange for knowing that you're not being spied on all the time? I could imagine a model where you pay a reasonable price for a tested/supported third-party O/S, but maybe CM has shown this isn't economically feasible.

frik 10y ago
You can thank MS for fxxkxng with CM. Now they sponsors Ubuntu, and see how they shift direction. Worst case scenario is EEE of Ubuntu/Canonical.
bigbugbag 10y ago
I don't remember android being floss since google bought it. My exprience of cyanogenMod is bad: support for the devices I owned was shaky to inconsistent through time. Then it turned into a commercial attempt at maximizing profit. IMHO the effort put into cyanogenmod would have been better used if put into building an actual OS. Though this is a mostly unreachable moving target as devices get obsolete faster than one can add support for at best manufacturers do not help. Right now I'm considering jolla/sailfish for the next time I buy a phone which hopefully will not happen before 4 or 5 years.