""And you do realize the reason that the two custom ROM projects still exist today is because not many people are using them, right?"" What? That sentence does

""And you do realize the reason that the two custom ROM projects still exist today is because not many people are using them, right?"" What? That sentence doesn't make any sense. Oh wait, are you implying Google would come along and DMCA them or something? Do you even get what is going on? CM is built on top of AOSP. Google has tipped their hat at them, the lead dev now works for Samsung. There are (edit, at least a) MILLION of installs of CyanogenMod alone. http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/ http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/ Those are opt-in only, it's not enabled on any of the CM9 kangs, and that's not counting the dozens of other AOSP ROMs that don't have stat tracking.