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Boycott Cyanogen/CyanogenMod
The way I see it is Google has a bad lock-in on Android. CM is trying to change that.
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The way Swapnil Bhartiya put it, "I find Google Android to be the most open platforms out there; if it was not ‘open’, Cyanogen wouldn’t even exist in the first place. Try building an iOS or Windows clone."
There are quite a few Linux-based mobile OSes that are proprietary, either entirely or partly (e.g. Sailfish OS). Thankfully, Android has been largely FOSS (AOSP), except many of the apps (especially not those that Google makes), and it's this platform that really took off, not webOS for example (although webOS too is being further liberated over time). In automotive telematics and other areas it's common to see platforms that are proprietary and built on top of Linux.
I intend to do another post about it later on. A lot of the "Google controls Android with iron first" type of characterisations came from Microsoft-friendly sites (I first spotted this and wrote about it in 2013). It's not that it's 100% untrue, but they have accentuated this to incite against Google and then tried to use it to poison the minds of OEMs while Microsoft (and proxies like Nokia) attempted an antitrust angle, not only in the US but in Europe too.
Microsoft is, as usual, playing dirty. This is the latest example of it and those who give CM the benefit of the doubt do so at their own peril.