[HD2 Android NAND Development] Cotulla:
Hello,

I want try to explain several things, there are many rumors around I think.

First of all I want to say that those hobby projects (MAGLDR and etc) comes NOT ONLY from me.

It comes from entire team, DFT team.

You should always considering it so.

I did the most of work of MAGLDR alone, but it still includes software, resources, hardware, testing, moral support from the team.

Without them nothing was created by me: HSPL, MAGLDR, and etc.

I have NO RIGHTS to manage all that without DFT team.

Last times we got less people in our team, some people become very busy (no time for hobby) and some retire by different reasons (family, education, etc) It's their right.

(I think oldschool guys still remember bepe and his WM kitchen and another cool stuffs. :cool: )

I am also become more busy nowdays, life is life, everything is changing very often.

About LEO projects...

Actually we failed on scheduling time right and understand how hard to finish most of them.

It's very big projects.

Initial MAGLDR version was done very fast and with a lot of problems. Then I decided to reimplement it from zero.

But the first attempt fails, so I started again and then it become very complex and large.

And still many things must be done ever for the first release :(

About device change...

My LEOs seems are broken: one got problem with buttons and another got many bad blocks :(

Well LEO's hardware become older and older.

LEO was good device I learned a lot of with it, but I decided to switch myself to the new more powerful device with a lot of new opportunities.

HTC One should be good device for new fun.

I hope that time DFT will use another strategy "release less, but more often" to prevent collecting non finished stuff.

About source codes...

DFT team rules prohibits releasing source codes and information.

It's not our goal. Our goal make funny and interesting things with mobile devices and share it with people to give them fun too.

Many other teams around XDA are also using same rules... so it's ok.

We followed our rules by years and it's why we are still alive,

unlike some guys who shared much in the past and then disappear very fast by various reasons

(for example 911sniper, who released a lot of fresh HTC RUU)

As well DFT doesn't have goal to 'show off' infront of community and world. It's cheap and not persistent.

Another problem that except users who really just like to mod and play with mobile devices, there are some people who

1)making illegal things (changing IMEIs on stolen phones, hacking networks and etc) 2)making money on that.

We consider our team as hobby only, so it's not our goal to help such persons.

Triggering such things will bite our community as well.

Actually most of stuff on XDA is illegal. It's fact. Just for now most companies close eyes on that.

But it doesn't mean that it will be always - good example is the lastest HTC actions: 'war against RUU'.

So our actions nowdays in the community define our future as well, we must be careful.

Releasing too much today may mean NOTHING in the future. no WP8 unlocks, no WP9 unlocks, nothing!

Another thing WRT/WP7/WP8 - it's NOT Android's world with AOSP open source.

It's completely closed source and any actions with that illegal.

I hope nobody cares when we are not making money on that and we are not crossing some 'line'.

Conclusion...

Ofcourse all that is sorrowfully,

I am sure there are few good guys who probably could continue some projects and reach success,

but our world is not ideal, unfortunately. So it's impossible.

I hope you understand our reasons or got a new view to the problem.

Before telling "heh, that's bull****!" think that DFT is doing that for almost 8 years and got some experience.

There were no ideas about green robots and 4 core CPUs and Cotulla afraided to flash his PDA

Best regards,

-Cotulla