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Open Source & CyanogenMod

Posted Apr 12, 2011 19:45 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Other aftermarket Android: http://replicant.us/ by coriordan
Parent article: CyanogenMod 7.0 released

You're reading the text differently than I am. I read it as trying to increase the amount that's open-source, but also trying to, you know, *actually work* on as much hardware as possible.

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Posted Apr 12, 2011 20:04 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Sure, maybe the idea in the developers' heads is "Let's free the phone!" or "Let's bring the available free software to as many platforms as possible!". Those could be great goals, but there's no mention of anything like that on their website. When a project says nothing in their public material about valuing freedom, that usually means they don't value freedom.

Replicant seems like a way more interesting project.

Open Source & CyanogenMod

Posted Apr 13, 2011 20:03 UTC (Wed) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

> Replicant seems like a way more interesting project.

I suppose that depends on your definition of "interesting". As far as I am concerned, a mobile phone operating system fully supports only ONE phone model - HTC Dream/G1, which by now is completely obsolete, out of production, and cannot be bought in mainstream stores - is pretty much of zero interest to anyone other than diehard Dream owners.