Re:A fork in the road
by BuuQu9hu on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:25PM
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Hope they learned their lesson and don't sell the name of the open source project out from under it again.
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Re:A fork in the road
by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:35PM
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Plenty of people have had to learn that lesson on various projects, time and again. Why stop now?
Re:A fork in the road
by starkpolly on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:27AM
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Could you expand on this "selling the name" bit?
How does that work?
The CyanogenMod open-source project somewhat lended their name to the Cyanogen company.
The link explains it better.
The link is too friendly to give the juicy details. I tried to find another source with Google Search. Perhaps this link is biased, but it's easy to understand the drama: https://plus.google.com/+GuillaumeLesniak/posts/L8FJkrcahPs