[ZTE Axon 7 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Deve] Oki:
Ejem... I don't know whether it was sarcasm or not, but I do not consider myself an expert at all. I just share my knowledge and help people that don't know something I know. The same way I read and learn from those who know a lot more than me. I am just another member of this community as you are. You are also providing a lot of valuable knowledge here to others. I believe these forums are the best place to share the knowledge.

On the other side, I am not asking NFound for open source. As far as I recall, there were several mentions before about open/closed source, so I wasn't the cause of this controversy at all. I was just giving my opinion after reading some posts related, or caused by closed source:

1. As far as I recall [MENTION=4929843]messi2050[/MENTION] was the first one asking for the sources in this thread, not me!. You won't find any post from me asking for sources in this forums since I've never been into it. [MENTION=4929843]messi2050[/MENTION] was just offering to help on fixing some issues in [MENTION=5492451]NFound[/MENTION] device tree. Issues inherited from the [MENTION=5027381]OrdenKrieger[/MENTION]'s B12 device tree that was forked by NFound. I see this offer an example of what teamwork really is: working together to achieve a final goal. The problem is the goal. The goal can be to have the best rom for the axon 7 (the more developers working in the same code, the better for this goal) or getting money (the more developers, the less of income). Both goals are legit, but the greatest and more respected developers always choose the first option.

2. Later, there was a doubt about the security of custom roms, a recurrent subject. In this regards you can be sure about a custom ROM only if you download a signed firmware from a reliable company such as LineageOS, or if you build your own from sources. If you download a TWRP or EDL package, something can be inside. It is not completely safe and you have to trust on the person/organization who built the firmware. Even ZTE was in doubt about spyware in their ROMs. That forced them to release the source code of their roms, not the requests from users.

3. About at the same time, in the TWRP thread, [MENTION=4937346]CobraKolibry[/MENTION] couldn't extract his data from an Axon 7 encrypted with the B12 bootstack simply because his screen was broken. The problem is a bug in TWRP 3.2.1-8 that makes ADB not working. Yes, even the best TWRP in the world has issues. Since his data partition was encrypted with B12 and only TWRP3.2.1-8 supports Oreo (B12) encryption, he can't extract it. This is a problem of having a closed source, otherwise he, or a good willing developer could at least try to debug that issue and flash the result to EDL or fastboot mode so B12 encryption could be safe to broken screens. Nonetheless, we all accept that there are risks in using highly experimental closed source as a daily driver.

After all these mentions. I wrote about open and closed sources, probably you were referring to that post. The biggest problem of having closed sources is that a single developer can't deliver the same amount of code and quality as two or three working in the same code tree. But again, I am just giving my opinion on issues mentioned by other members.