plankton@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoWhat comes to mind?programming.devimagemessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
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minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoCyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.
minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoMy big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s
minus-squarebitwolf@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoiirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights. Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into
CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.
My big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s
iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.
Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into