[wplug] Cyanogen partners with Microsoft

[Doug Green]

Quick side note, the prior comments about Steve (not) presenting at WPLUG seemed pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek to me (at least they made me laugh, intentional or not), so I'm pretty sure nobody was seriously suggesting that anyone be excluded... Not to mention that I'm 100% certain that Stevie K has a LOT on his plate. Facing a bunch of angry geeks is probably low on his priority list. Breathe. ;)

Joe, I just saw that they just released 12 as an OTA update! Awesome. Does that mean they are going to continue ROM support on This device (ie: release says it's available to All Users)?? 

-D

> On Apr 20, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Joe Prostko <joe.prostko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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