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Re:Fairphone 3 Teardown by secondtom on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:07PM (#20946561)
Conflating LineageOS with forum sourced ROMs is FUD, and the vast majority of servers are run on software from the efforts of the "the community".
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Re:Fairphone 3 Teardown by freehunter on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:39PM (#20946839)
>Conflating LineageOS with forum sourced ROMs is FUD

Nonsense. CyanogenMod started off as a forum-sourced ROM on XDA just like anything else [1]. It may have grown beyond that, but only because people blindly trusted it and installed it on their phones 10 years ago, and XDA is still distributing hacked ROMs in the exact same fashion today.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204

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Re:Fairphone 3 Teardown by CDSlice on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:22PM (#20946703)
You mean the community of companies that pay people to work on Linux? Most people working on it today aren't volunteers
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