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by kagenouta 2271 days ago
This actually happened once before -- Cyanogen himself spent several years working as an engineer at Samsung. The project didn't actually start running into serious sustainability issues until the team tried to build it into a company.

Of course, that's probably got to do with bus factor. A similar story happened w Paranoid Android, only OnePlus hired several of their devs to work on OxygenOS, and the project hasn't been the same since.
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kubanczyk 2271 days ago
That's why I pay attention to the license when contributing to FOSS.

For MIT, BSD, Apache 2, it's quite easy for a company to hire a handful of active maintainers and starve the original project by redirecting their attention to a closed-source fork. http://hintjens.com/blog:27

GPL, and especially AGPL, are better in this regard.

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