content: Incompetence and greed, you had Steve Kondik and Kirt McMaster running it, the dynamic duo of wrong turns and failure. Look at the history of when it first went to a commercial company and they tried to bully developers out of using the GPL so they could close things they didn't even write. When it first went commercial a lot of us knew it was going to fail, the business smarts were not there and McMaster seemed to go out of his way to made the community hate them. Cyanogen did some good things but also had a toxic dev community that was extremely hard to work with, a lot people took their sources and did their own stuff away from Cyanogen, it got extremely fragmented.    This isn't really a bad thing, with the commercial stuff out of the way maybe some of the good devs will return, I hope they learn from this but knowing Steve he will blame everyone but himself and before long the cancer will return under Linage brand.  The history of Cyanogen is hilarious, the CEO publicly stated he would put a bullet through Google's head at one point, a massive case of incompetence and greed snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.    Edit: It's been years since I worked on Cyanogen, the reason I left was because of how toxic the project leaders made it. Kondik especially was arrogant and used to push crap that broke everyone else's work without warning and then tell us unpaid volunteers to fix his mess. If you want an insight to how toxic the personalities are, read the comments here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/01/steve-kondik-blames-kirt-mcmaster-for-cyanogen-incs-failure-cyanogenmod-to-reorganize-and-regroup/ They have learned nothing, unbelievable, exactly the same cancer from all of them. Revealing is how Kondik wants to try and start yet another company, so if Linage takes off, look for a repeat of investor and community rape again. Kondik's lack of self awareness and arrogance will never change, yuck, avoid.