ViperMax 2.0.0 | Android 4.4 | Sense 5.5 | VZW/SPC Support (5/1/2014)

What I expect to be the final beta was released to testers this morning. Light fine tuning is the last part after that before release. This message is for all carriers

mwebb34 said:

Just wondering....why doesn't nusense have awesome tweaks like viper?

"VZW" OneMAX? Viper ROM
Retired: Droid Incredible 2, Samsung Galaxy Note, Note 2, Note 3.

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I'm sure that nusense has a few things that this ROM doesn't have, like sense 6 for instance. I appreciate your passion for this ROM, but please remember that xda is not a competition ground. Each dev or dev-team brings different choices to the table and it's for users to decide what they want on their phone. Comparing roms and/or teams based on "who is better" (and that would only be your opinion anyway) only creates animosity and a hostile community.

If your question was meant to be taken literally, and not in a, "why is viperMax better" intention, then I'll answer it that way too. We (team venom) have a strong no-sharing policy in regards to our tweaks/mods. This wasn't always the case, but without going into details, we once shared a few things, and then quickly got completely kanged (our entire roms were used without permission). It took us countless hours of working with the xda brass to get these kangs under control and removed, and it lead to new site-wide policies being created, specifically the admission of "no selective sharing of work" (a dev can't grant one dev permission to use their work, and deny another).

We are aware that our strict no-sharing policy kinda goes against the general open-source principals of Android, but unfortunately, the behaviour of others pushed us into that corner. Many of us still will go out of our way to assist other devs if they're in need of help, but we refuse to give permissions for non-venom devs to use our work. In my opinion, if we were to share our code with every dev that asked, it wouldn't help the community, as it would only lead to 3+ other roms that are exactly the same as ours (where's the point/benefit in that?).