• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    I’ve learned from my mistakes with Google IoT. Unless I can host things myself, preferably even before the product inevitably dies, i’m not even considering it

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      Too risky. Who knows what’s hiding in their code. Might be some copylefted library or a piece of code that’s been copy-pasted into the project without fully complying with the copyleft requirements. Making sure this isn’t the case and/or cleaning up an abandoned project can be costly and complicated. Easier for them to just kill it.

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        I love the distaste for the word that is opposite of left/the side of the political spectrum where fascism resides

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    The best weapon we have against these parasites of open source and self hosting.

    Don’t feed your enemy with funds.

    Deny the parasite profit and engagement

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    Most IoT devices that died did so because the vendor went out of business and had to shut off the servers. Most lived in hope that a last minute investment would keep them afloat. In a few other cases, it was the middleware software provider (like Google IoT) that shut down and bricked a device.

    This legislation might apply to a big company that decides to discontinue a product line and could then send notices out, but most startups won’t know (or admit defeat) till the last possible moment. By then it’s too late.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.org
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    Good thing the end of Windows support isn’t the end of the story for PC at least.