Comments on: CyanogenMod Receives a Cease and Desist Letter From Google

By: Luis GB

Luis GB — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:20:59 +0000

I think the other problem is that the phone manufacturers limited there phones with a small amount of RAM and ROM space. I mean come on, the iPhone started with at least 8GB internal memory. Would at least getting 1 to 2 GB of memory be bad? The cost of a MicroSD card that size is fairly cheap. Only Samsung is doing things right by offering way more memory on their phone. Cyanogen has a great mod that works around the limitations of the phone and allows you to fully experience the power of Android. Google needs to leave Cyanogen alone or at least come up with a compromise so we can continue to enjoy the fruits of his labor and also google needs to push manufacturers to up the memory on their phones if they want to take full advantage of Android’s features.

By: Matt V

Matt V — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:14:53 +0000

Google wants to make billions, but hates the little guy developer who just improved their OS. They are embarrassed because of it, and can’t man-up to say “yeah, he made a better product than we did”. This is anti-Americanism at its best. I’ve closed my adsense account and encourage everyone to boycott buying anything google until they back off. I love cyanogen, its so much better than the stock OS. Let’s fight this!

By: joel2nd

joel2nd — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:21:09 +0000

All I know is if this things continues going in the direction it appears to be going, then this is the last Android phone I ever buy. It’s their own damn fault for coming out with a slow sluggish operating system. Otherwise, there would be no need for Cyanogen. I see no hope that Google will do a better job on future releases on their own.

By: Jay Garrick

Jay Garrick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:07:53 +0000

uh… I dont follow the happenings of the open-source world, so from a naive reader, is it punishment for the mod that allowed access to Market 1.6? It sounds like if that mod hadn’t existed, there would be no cease & desist?

By: LaNsLyDe

LaNsLyDe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:32:12 +0000

i’m disappointed. cyanogen ROMs are the best! I’m interested to see how this ends.

By: mnDave

mnDave — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:57:00 +0000

teh google is teh lamez!

By: startBlue

startBlue — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:23:53 +0000

Do no evil… ha ha ha!

I don’t think Microsoft has ever issues a cease and decist to the modders of Windows Mobile on XDA Developers. And Windows Mobile is way more copyrighted/licensed than Android (as most of Android if open source so you can do with it as you please).

The only work around is to do like the iPhone Jailbreakers do and require you to compile the rom on your actual computer by ‘blending’ the legit rom (containing the propietary stuff) together with the hacked rom. That way they don’t distrubute anything copyrighted.

By: tato22

tato22 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:43:45 +0000

google has nothing better to do then make ppl un happy just cuz the man dose hes work and gets shit out faster then they do they get mad fuck just offer the ma a job make him work with ya not send him no bull shit letter

By: eYe

eYe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:52:06 +0000

What if (and this is just a wild guess, I’m not a developer) Cyan cooks up his roms and leaves ALL Google closed-source apps out of it. This should get him out of trouble… Obviously, roms will not work without core apps (like gTalk, gMail or Market) but most of us have spare copies by now that we can just ADB-push into the system and return that functionality. Shouldn’t that keep everyone happy? Feel free to correct me, as I’ve said I’m not a developer so I’m not sure if that would work out…

By: alt-mobile

alt-mobile — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:35:24 +0000

From a legal standpoint they don’t have much ground to stand on especially since he isn’t charging for what he is doing or claiming a program to be his when it isn’t (which would be some form of copyright infringement).

Sucks that he has to go through this headache though..