[GTALUG] [OT] One Plus One Invite to pass along.
William Muriithi
william.muriithi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 21:33:14 UTC 2014
> > 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.
Len,
Thank you for sharing that Len. I also didn't know they had turned toxic. Qualcomm however is an open book.
William
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