I briefly had a phone with CyanogenMod on it. Had the hardware been faster, and had more memory on it, I would have certainly stayed with that.<br><br>The copyright threat was actually Google telling them to stop distributing applications that are totally Google's, such as Gmail, Calendar, ...etc. They complied and life goes on.<br>
<br>By the way, the guy who started CyanogenMod has now been employed by Samsung as of a week ago.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Chris Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:13:14AM -0400, Glenn Henshaw wrote:<br>
> From what I recall, key portions of Android that are needed for phones are closed source. I think that they took the model from Apple and Darwin (BSD based) where parts like the audio manager are missing.<br>
<br>
</div>There are open source builds of android (cyanogenmod in particular) that<br>
are fully functional on and as phones. They did get hit with a copyright<br>
threat from google, but that was for distributing closed-source apps<br>
(gmail, etc).<br>
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