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It isn't terribly sensationalist. Indeed a former team member is holding the domain hostage, it's not a simple transition by any means.

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Just reading the title, I was under the impression that CyanogenMod itself was no longer available from the developer, not just the website. I'm not sure if "sensationalist" is the right word, but, it wouldn't pass an editor's muster.

Yes, perhaps "sensationalist" wasn't the right term; "false" would have been better. Cyanogenmod is not offline, and it wasn't the developer who took anything offline.

Good point about the old title saying 'by developer'. Probably since I knew what had happened already it didn't stand out to me, but I see how folks would think it meant Steve took it down.

Again I don't think the title was meant to read that way, but yeah I agree that was not clear and the new title/direct link is much better.

Oh I agree completely; I certainly don't think saket123 meant to mislead people at all. It was just an unfortunate choice of words causing a little bit of a dust up. Maybe now any relevant conversation can happen!

So let's all go answer or up-vote philp's comment!

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