These holidays were not happy for Cyanogen Inc., the company behind the alternative version of Android is more widely used. "All services and updates will be discontinued", wrote yesterday on his blog to announce that not give you more support for your operating system CyanogenMod. Today, their web site no longer exists.
stood out not only for free and open source, but also for his great goal: to provide a "better" version of Android that Google. For the community of Cyanogen this was summed up in more features and give the advanced user the total control of your computer to do what you want.
CyanogenMod grew thanks to its structure of open development that is installed in the platform social GitHub, where programmers from all over the world to share lines of code, came to be thousands of contributors.
The project began shortly after the launch of Android, when they discovered certain failures that allowed users to modify the internal configuration of the computer. Shortly thereafter, the developer Steve Kondik began working on its own version of Android. Thus was born CyanogenMod.
Kondik got a job at Samsung in 2011, but continued to monitor the contributions of the community of Cyanogen until in 2013 left the company to dedicate himself full time to this. Gathered 7 million and tried to transform what was a draft geek is a true technology company, Cyanogen Inc.
These last two months, the company took hard decisions. Reported the closure of its offices in Seattle, bailed their staff, changed their CEO, and finally scheduled the end of CyanogenMod for the December 31,.
Faced with these facts, and thanks to the virtue of open source, part of the team explained that they will continue to work on your own. From the latest version of CyanogenMod, will continue with the development under a new name, Lineage OS and will try to return to its original focus: the community.
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