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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249307

What the hell has actually happened? Neither the link, the Cyanogen website nor the comments here really explain it.

Turns out naming things is an even more difficult problem than we thought

this is about cyanogen inc., not cyanogenmod.

tl;dr: CyanogenMod isn’t going anywhere

Your TL;DR is incorrect or misleading. CyanogenMod is dead.

No, it's just going to be rebranded and disconnected from the (dead) company cngn inc. - cyanogen himself even confirmed this on twitter

"It will come as no surprise that this most recent action from Cyngn is definitely a death blow for CyanogenMod."

https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road

It's a complete fork from CyanogenMod to be called Lineage.

https://github.com/lineageos

Plus Lineage seems like a much better brand name than CyanogenMod for mass adoption.

Though I would've called it Cyborg or something more analogous to Android.

I always thought "TrueBlueOS" would have been a good name for the open source version...

But then the confusion with TrueOS (prev. PC-BSD).

That's exactly what coderobe said, that it will be rebranded and split off from the company. Just because it's called something else doesn't mean it's "dead".

Exactly. When someone changes their name, we don't hold a funeral.

The end of CyanogenMod