So the OnePlus team took away the Paranoid Android team and now CM too. I understand the difference between CynaogenMod and Cynaogen. But cyanogen is the only popular AOSP fork on which a huge number of AOKP projects are based. This would have a massive effect on the xda community.
But I guess this gives more space for the new OSs like Sailfish, nextbit Etc.
Also in IMHO, AOSP was useful majorly because of CM. Even though this decision might not close CM. It's affect on the self hacking Android community would be interesting
What does OnePlus have to do with this? I'll admit I'm not down in the trenches on ROMs, etc. but my understanding from what I've read over time is that it runs like this:
CyanogenMod is a popular and widely used ROM
Core developers of CyanogenMod and possibly some business folks decide to turn it into a company and provide said ROM (with customer-desired tweaks) to small hardware vendors who don't want to do their own in-house development
Two of the client companies are OnePlus and someone in India, but contract screwups mean that because of this OnePlus can't sell their phones in India. Displeased with losing a huge market for inexpensive phones, they drop Cyanogen and go their own way for future products.
Further drama and possibly not enough sales ensue
Internal drama at Cyanogen leads to the founder of CyanogenMod leaving
Cyanogen the company shuts down.
I'm sure there's a ton of nuance, hurt feelings, betrayal, etc. involved (aka "drama"), but blaming OnePlus for Cyanogen shutting down makes no more sense than blaming Cyanogen for OnePlus shutting down if they'd gone under due to the whole "can't sell in India" thing.
PS: Not implying that OnePLus was responsible for Cyangen's shutdown. Merely lamenting here about the AOSP community now that 1 major player is out and the second one is going to "rebrand"
But I guess this gives more space for the new OSs like Sailfish, nextbit Etc.
Also in IMHO, AOSP was useful majorly because of CM. Even though this decision might not close CM. It's affect on the self hacking Android community would be interesting