[wplug] Cyanogen partners with Microsoft

[Joe Prostko]

Dave, I agree.

With respect to the original discussion started by Justin, I admit I'm not
a huge fan of how Cyanogen, Inc. has handled things over the past months,
but well, Cyanogen OS != CyanogenMOD.  I am currently running CM 12.1 on my
OnePlus One, and it works well.  I pretty much gave up on Cyanogen OS
though due to me not agreeing with the decisions made by Cyanogen, Inc.
Seeing as CyanogenMOD is ultimately still an open source project, I feel
fine using it, as it can always be forked if Cyanogen, Inc. decides to
totally ruin it like they're managing to do with Cyanogen OS.

- joe

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Dave Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually his name is Steve Kondik.
>
> It would be a dangerous precedent for WPLUG to force people into a software
> freedom purity test.
>
> -- Dave Ostroske
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Jake S <jskiba99 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is that a serious comment that you would not allow someone to present
> > based off their affiliations?
> >
> > > From: netrek at gmail.com
> > > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:32:00 -0400
> > > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > > Subject: Re: [wplug] Cyanogen partners with Microsoft
> > >
> > > Who is he?
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Terence J. Golighlty <
> > > terencejgolightly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We should drop all future considerations to have Steve Kondit ever
> > > > presenting  to WPLUG.  His name shall not ever be mentioned again.
> > > >
> > > > T
> > > >
> > > > On 04/19/2015 12:38 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Cyanogen, the company that develops the popular Android derivative
> > > >> CyanogenMOD, has signed an agreement to distribute Microsoft
> software
> > in
> > > >> its
> > > >> operating system. Don't believe me? Read it yourself[1].
> > > >>
> > > >> So just to review, Cyanogen started releasing its own proprietary
> > version
> > > >> of
> > > >> CyanogenMOD and is now partnering with Microsoft to distribute
> > Microsoft
> > > >> proprietary software.
> > > >>
> > > >> If you're still using CyanogenMOD on your Android device, I
> recommend
> > > >> investigating
> > > >> alternatives that respect software freedom. If you're not sure where
> > to
> > > >> begin, try
> > > >> SlimROM[2]. That's what I use. It's a lean, mean, 100% open source
> > > >> version of
> > > >> Android that has many of the sort of ease-of-use features that
> > > >> CyanogenMOD does.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> *Justin Smith*
> > > >> GNU/Linux System Administrator
> > > >>
> > > >> --------
> > > >> [1] http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/-2010445.htm
> > > >> [2] http://slimroms.net/
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