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He will probably find, sadly, a rash of contractual obligations prohibiting him from doing any such thing. What, you thought Microsoft paid good money [no amount available] for a ***name*** ??? Get real, their legal team would have done a total number of the entire operation. Fuck those guys.

So their solution is to fragment the ecosystem even more?

What did you expect from them after they after entered into a "strategic partnership" with Microsoft?

WAT?

https://cyngn.com/blog/its-tim... - They constantly talk about how they're all about an "open OS" and "open Android".

The problem is that their actions are always inconsistent with their talk. While they talk an Open OS, their reaction to Google moving more and more components of AOSP into GMS and abandoning the open-source AOSP variants is:
Take that list of applications and create their own proprietary versions or license them from someone else:
First Focal, and when attempting to use their CLA to obtain dual-licensing rights to Focal failed (due to their CLA fortunately lacking some of the nastiness found in other CLAs like Harmony - not all CLAs are created equal, as Koush learned the hard way with Focal), CameraNext
GalleryNext
EmailNext aka Boxer
Now, Microsoft's suite of proprietary apps, ones which contribute further to the continued dominance of Office by encouraging use of proprietary formats prone to vendor lock-in (Google is, in contrast, pretty good about giving people who want to migrate away their data in open formats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... )

They have a simple choice: either they develop the apps Microsoft provides themselves, or they let Microsoft do it, and focus on developing an OS. From their website, you can see, that they do want to remain open. They don't drive an 100% OSS approach. Cyanogenmod never was about 100% open source, installing google apps always has been an extra step in the cyanogenmod installation guide. Also, they didn't replace the proprietary drivers with open ones.

This is about Cyanogen OS, not CyanogenMod. Cyanogen OS is included into phones out of the box.

What they do, is giving people a choice. I have installed cyanogenmod onto my phone because I wanted to get rid of bloatware and google services. If this is the way how Cyanogen can finance CyanogenMod development, and that is still open source modulo drivers, I'm ok with it.

Out of curiosity, if Cyanogenmod were bought for $1 billion, who would get the money? The executives and officers who manage the open source company? Would the developers who contribute to the project for free see any of it?

CyanogenMod started releasing their own phones: https://cyngn.com/products/n1/

because according to the google agreement the manufacturers can't build any non-google android phones.

https://cyngn.com/products/n1/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...
Whoops, i guess that makes you 100% wrong.

They dont sell them because theres a small market. But theres no reason you cant do it, and Oppo is doing it.