[GTALUG] [OT] One Plus One Invite to pass along.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 03:17:47PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 01:14:22PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > I didn't know this about Cyanogenmod.  I use stock firmware on all my
> > Android devices, acting like a dumb consumer (sadly, that's what I
> > am).  I just assumed Cyanogenmod was open if I wanted to bother.  Is
> > it like dd-wrt?
> 
> That is my understanding.  They used to be open, then the leaders did
> a dd-wrt and went some other direction and a new project got forked.
> Certainly supporting a qualcomm device with open code is quite hard.
> Google has even had trouble getting factory images for nexus phones
> released because of qualcomm, and qualcomm is the reason the android
> open source project leader at google resigned.

For example:

http://www.ootpapps.com/2013/09/cyanogenmod-inc-betrayal-spirit-android/

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Len Sorensen