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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 31 2016, @05:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the there-will-be-tears dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Cyanogen Inc., the company built around the CyanogenMod open source Android OS ROM project, declined a acquisition offer by Google two years ago as it sought a $1 billion valuation. Now, the company has shut down its namesake open source development project and all its related services. Defiant CyanogenMod developers have now seized the project and relaunched it under the name LineageOS.

On December 23, a Cyanogen Inc. spokesperson posted a notice on the company's blog:

As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally.

The move came just a week after the CyanogenMod development community released the final versions of CyanogenMod 13.0 and on the heels of the departure of Cyanogen Inc. co-founder and the founder of the development project itself, Steve "cyanogen" Kondik. The shutdown is essentially a death sentence for the CyanogenMod project, since the project's infrastructure was supported by the services being shut down.

[...] The LineageOS project has been set up on GitHub, and members of the team have created a placeholder project website at lineageos.org. As soon as it was clear that the fork had been launched, Cyanogen Inc. shut down all of CyanogenMod's infrastructure.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:17AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:17AM (#448040) Journal

    The rentseekers are making it a point to set things up such that by the time "things get bad enough" everyone not on their team will be dead or worse, that's my point.

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