You don't get it do you?

As an engineer I couldn't care less about their small post. I already knew about cyanogen.

As a run of the mill consumer though this post couldn't be more poignant. Raising awareness of an alternative firmware? That is huge. This is how Linux got started.

Blame marketing all you want but the more people who know about Cyanogen the better.

This.

Cyanogen is still harder than jailbreaking an iOS device, but the gap is narrowing.

As that edge reaches more casual users, who aren't just tech-heavy people, there's no reason Cyanogen couldn't be the Ubuntu of Android phones. It could have a large base of converts who want an alternative but don't want to have to spend all their time learning how to use their software in (for us techies) awesome ways.

Not sure how CyanogenMod commenting on a topical issue that affects their target audience deserves a hostile response. Also not sure when people started caring about the feelings of telcos that put spyware on your phone by default...

If it turned out that basically every other mainstream phone OS had just been discovered to cause cancer, yes, I would say the fact that CM doesn't and never will would be welcome news.

Couldn't agree more. Thanks CyanogenMod for this breaking press release...

You've just helped me to understand, why I had somewhat uneasy feeling about the project name: in my head cyanogen has connotations with carcinogen.

The name actually means "causes blueness", I guess.