The end of CyanogenMod

[polygot]

https://lwn.net/Articles/710136/rss

[dandelion_lover]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249307

[apatters]

What the hell has actually happened? Neither the link, the Cyanogen website nor the comments here really explain it.

[mavhc]

Turns out naming things is an even more difficult problem than we thought

[Aardwolf → crapLogoz]

Doesn't want to see logo again... posts base64 version of it to preserve it forever :)

[coderobe]

this is about cyanogen inc., not cyanogenmod.

tl;dr: CyanogenMod isn’t going anywhere

[teach → coderobe]

Your TL;DR is incorrect or misleading. CyanogenMod is dead.

[coderobe → teach]

No, it's just going to be rebranded and disconnected from the (dead) company cngn inc. - cyanogen himself even confirmed this on twitter

[teach → coderobe]

"It will come as no surprise that this most recent action from Cyngn is definitely a death blow for CyanogenMod."

https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road

It's a complete fork from CyanogenMod to be called Lineage.

https://github.com/lineageos

[sker → teach]

Plus Lineage seems like a much better brand name than CyanogenMod for mass adoption.

Though I would've called it Cyborg or something more analogous to Android.

[fattire → sker]

I always thought "TrueBlueOS" would have been a good name for the open source version...

[type0 → fattire]

But then the confusion with TrueOS (prev. PC-BSD).

[mynameisvlad → teach]

That's exactly what coderobe said, that it will be rebranded and split off from the company. Just because it's called something else doesn't mean it's "dead".

[simonh → mynameisvlad]

Exactly. When someone changes their name, we don't hold a funeral.