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Re:Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team by ajross on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:24PM (#13264875)
Not really. Here's what's publicly known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod#Restructure_and_ce...

Honestly it looks to me that they just ran out of runway and dissolved into an internal power struggle, then someone representing the investor side of things came in to shut it all down and recover what could be salvaged.

Re:Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team by fapjacks on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:53PM (#13265712)
There was a post on Reddit from one of the former developers warning people to disable updates (not for regular CyanogenMod, but for the commercial devices) because the company was talking about pushing adware of some kind of the devices with an unannounced update.