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Re:A fork in the road by starkpolly on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:27AM (#13253099)
Could you expand on this "selling the name" bit?

How does that work?

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Re:A fork in the road by bcook on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:33AM (#13253108)
The CyanogenMod open-source project somewhat lended their name to the Cyanogen company.

The link explains it better.

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Re:A fork in the road by gus_massa on Sunday December 25, 2016 @07:57AM (#13253972)
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
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