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minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days 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-up0·15 days 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·edit-215 days 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