[Galaxy Note 3 General] aegeuss:
Guys,

This is his message dated December 10 pertaining the situation; unfortunately there are at least two months for a public build I suppose.

"+Cory Miller and others, I can promise you that none of the devs working on this or any other device for that matter have ever seen a single penny of that money you speak of. You should not comment on things you really don't understand. That money goes towards the servers and bandwidth needed to offer you and everyone else a completely FREE product. Furthermore, donations do not entitle you to a single thing.

I've devoted thousands of volunteer hours towards the +CyanogenMod project because I want to, not because someone is paying me. I wouldn't take it even if it was offered because thats not how I operate. I do it because I believe in open source projects and the community, though my belief in the community is starting to drop off at this point.

Some clarifications. No I am not the maintainer for hlte nor do I want to be after seeing the absolute ****ing childish bull**** the community around this device has put forth, and even if I was, maintainers have NO duty at all to anyone. They are not bound to provide timely updates or anything else, because 100% of the efforts and time and frustration in testing and building come completely out of the free and good will of the person doing it. I picked up this device because the CM team is incredibly busy as of late and people have real world obligations outside of providing you a free product under the constant stream of abuse that the community seems entitled to dish out. The only reason I got involved was to get things moving and because I personally want CM on this phone. I don't owe anyone anything and the fact that its being constantly demanded after numerous polite requests is very telling. I stepped up and did something because I was not happy with the progress, something ANY of you could be doing too. In short, if you want something, do it yourself. I had to learn an incredible amount of stuff to get this thing up and running, but I did it because I want it and no one gave me a handout.

And what do I get for being the only person keeping the torch going for this? A constant stream of private message abuse, G+ flooding my inbox with trite bull**** about how I owe people things and how its long overdue and how it's been months (read it's been two months since this device came out, calm down) etc, etc. This is a brand new SoC on a brand new platform that's barely weeks old with no documentation, it takes TIME. I'm sorry that all the hours of my time and sacrificing my own personal device that I'm devoting towards this for free isn't good enough for everyone and isn't happening fast enough. More so I'm sorry that this topic is now closed because of the actions of a few. This was started as a light hearted and excited post about my own personal accomplishment and something I was happy to share to others waiting for CM for this phone. The Android community has of late been turning more and more toxic and it's something I simply don't want to rush home after working all day to spend additional time on away from my family to cater to an audience that could not care about anything but themselves."