Latest e-mail (as of writing this comment) from Chih-Wei Huang:
Merry Chrismas!
It's two weeks after we exposed the "Console OS" scam. Though I've got many positive feedback and encouragement, I still feel disappointed that the scam has not stopped. Christopher Price continues making more execuses to cheat his backers that he still works hard for the "Console OS".
There are some misunderstandings that I have to clarify. I am NOT AGAINST the forking of Android-x86. Forking an open source project is definitely allowed. Actually if you follow android-x86 closely, you probably have known there are already some projects forked from Android-x86. Someone even sells Android-x86. It's absolutely OK. I never say no to these.
"Console OS" is NOT a forking of Android-x86. "Console OS" does not exist. No any evidence can show it has ever been developed. It is just a scam which makes use of Android-x86 (and Android-IA as well).
Someone tried to defend for "Console OS" as "the developers may have under-estimated the work to be >accomplished, and development did not go according to plans, ..." "it's likely more incompetence than an outright scam",
Well, if you compare the resources and achievements of Android-x86 and "Console OS" in the past two years, you know the answer clearly.
Resources of Android-x86: * Man power: <= 3 volunteers work part-time wihout paid * Fund: none (PayPal even blocks the donation of Android-x86) * Vendors support: none
Resources of "Console OS": * Man power: A big team including Paris's and womem ==> Christopher Price emphasized that * Fund: $78,497 from Kickstart + unknown from investors * Vendors support: Intel + a lot of unknown
Achievements of Android-x86 since 2014: * 3 stable release of kitkat-x86 * 1 release candidate of lollipop-x86 * 1 test release of marshmallow-x86 * Kernel 3.18 / 4.0 / 4.x * Mesa porting 10.x / 11.x * Ffmpeg integration * Bluez integration ... (too many to be listed) Please read the presentation page 18 for details of the porting >status: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mND8K-AXbMMl8-wOTe75NOpM0xOcJbVy8UorryHOWsY
Achievements of "Console OS" so far: * Kitkat DR1 -- a copy of Android-IA wihotut promised feature * Lollipop source - a copy and renamed Android-x86 * No demo * No video * No any one line of code can be seen
Assuming "Console OS" is not a scam, a team is working for him. The team is definitely not qualified since they cannot meet any goal they set. They have no performance. Christopher Price, as the CEO of Console Inc., is unqualified to lead the team. His KPI is zero. The board of directors of Console Inc. (if exists) should fire him immediately.
Since the "code of Console OS" is just a copy of Android-x86 lollipop-x86 branch. To disillusion the scam quicker, I decide to STOP development of lollipop-x86 entirely. We will focus on the marshmallow-x86 branch to make it stable as soon as possible.
As a result, I've rebased marshmallow-x86 to Android 6.0.1_r3 (marshmallow-mr1) and pushed it to the git server as a Chrismas gift.
Let's bet on what Christopher Price can do next. Well, he will decide to move "Console OS" to Marshmallow as well since "his backers" asked him to do so. Then he will "open source" his code to github in the next 180 or 360 days. What else?
If you are a backer who still believes that Christopher Price will deliever something you expected in the next 360 days, good luck to you. Or, please contact me privately to discuss what the next actions we can do.