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All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader Nemosoft Unv. writes: A very brief post on
Cyanogen's blog says it all really: "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." Of course, with no focused team behind the CyanogenMod project it's effectively dead. Building an Android OS from scratch is no mean feat and most users won't be able to pull this off, let alone make fixes and updates. So what will happen next?
Cyanogen had already laid off 20% of its workforce in July, and in November announced they had "separated ties" with Cyanogen founder and primary contributor Steve Kondik. One Android site quoted Kondik as saying "what I was trying to do, is over" in a private Google+ community, and the same day Kondik posted on Twitter, "Time for the next adventure." He hasn't posted since, so it's not clear what he's up to now. But the more important question is whether anyone will continue developing CyanogenMod.
UPDATE: Android Police reports that the CyanogenMod team "has posted an update of their own, confirming the shutdown of the CM infrastructure and outlining a plan to continue the open-source initiative as Lineage." The team posts on their blog that "we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches."
UPDATE: Android Police reports that the CyanogenMod team "has posted an update of their own, confirming the shutdown of the CM infrastructure and outlining a plan to continue the open-source initiative as Lineage." The team posts on their blog that "we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches."
One of my criteria for buying a phone was that it had CM available -- my latest being the OnePlus X. Every Android phone I've owned has run CM. This is very disappointing.
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I'm glad this information is finally coming to light. I was looking for a good place to have dinner.
Cyanogen Inc never hired anyone to port the OS to new devices and maintain builds, this was always done by the users. With Inc. working on apps this is more like the separation of church and state.
Damn, I've been using CM nightlies on my phone for the last year. Now what am I supposed to do? I was actually going to spend my day redoing my phone with 14 so I could get Android 7.
What's a good alternative OS, given that I can not go back to stock? (No, really, there's a lock so I can't reflash the stock OS)
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Remember LibreOffice? Someone will pick this up and keep developing it.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
So not 100% dead, just not using the CyanogenMod brand any more because it's become tainted.
Cyanogen Inc. the company is dead and bankrupt. Good riddance. This has of course repercussions for the community project cyanogenmod as well. Especially for the name "cyanogen" itself, which belongs to the company but also infrastructure like servers which were used by the community project.
But the people behind cyanogenmod, the ones doing the actual work for many phones, not the guys who wanted to simply sell that work, will continue:
A quote from a blog entry at https://www.cyanogenmod.org/bl...
"Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a ‘rebrand’. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently."
So the name cyanogen/cyanogenmod is dead, the project itself is hopefully not.
Don't let the door hit you whiny bitches in the ass on the way out.
Once MS got involved, it was going to be game over, man.
I'm hoping Sailfish continues to evolve....
It was a foregone conclusion that this company was doomed once Microsoft laid its filthy paws on it. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
Obama is still the president for another month, so this is his fault. :-p
Ever notice how the FBI never goes after Google/Android/Samsung/etc. for access to their phones? Apple has a much smaller market share and the feds are all over them?
Because Android is like a screen door. The feds don't need to sue, they just walk in.
Someone make a torrent of all their old/latest builds/instructions/site/servers.. I'm sure it'll be handy for legacy phones as time goes on. I still use Cyanogenmod 7.x on my Droid2's, works great w/o google play bloat.
My 1mbps inet won't cut it ;p
More FOSS amateur shit crashes to the ground and burns. Never trust basement dwelling coders, if they were any good they would have been hired by reputable corporations and became professional programmers. Mediocrity and lack of social skills doom them to slave away on half-assed projects with no future at all. Stay away from this crap.
Has that project actually gone anywhere?
I read this and felt like half my Xmas turkey was coming backup.
God awful news....now I have to build the damn thing myself...again...
So you know I always had this idea of starting a community site where people could cooperate and build AOSP distros... ;-)
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Now if only there was a Mobile Platform that has a longstanding history of providing Updates for reasonable periods of time...
Oh, wait...
but we somehow managed on xda! Guess that's your answer.
.. almost about every great thing MS buys just goes devastating stupidly wrong .. what a shame and a really bad thing for humanity caused by this irresponsible behaviour of that company ..
eg. Visio, Skype, now CyanogenMod and surely hundreds of other examples .. at what stage this counts officially as terrorism what MS is doing here? It's quite obvious that the only logic explanation is to disrupt worldwide productivity .. normaly a sure sign for terrorism, right?
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It's Christmas, so take that Christmas chill pill and relax. There will always be free ROMs as long as Google doesn't shut off AOSP completely. And unlike the article says, you don't need an Android system most people can build from scratch: what you do need is Android free as it is today, OEMs providing open drivers or at least driver packages that can be bundle with custom ROMs, and the dedicated developers on XDA that will have your back because they love what they do and they have the time. I know how selfish that sounds, but I have been spoiled and I know the official CM team has long done nothing different than what other non-CM based ROMs have.
wish I had points to mod the parent up. Not everything is an evil M$ plan.
wish I had points to mod the parent up. Not every evil is a M$ plan.
wish I had points to mod the parent up. Not everything is an evil M$ plan.
Yup, there is sometimes an evil M$ coincidence...
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The company also confirmed its next open-source initiative Lineage OS with some of the original team on board carrying forward CyanogenMod development, however, in a new avatar: "Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a 'rebrand'. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently," added the team in blog post.