everyone is bleating about bose open-sourcing its smart speakers
they didn't open-source shit
they gave you the API docs
there is no source for you.
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is there an underlying US ethics in this exhibition to undermine what open source means? They say one thing they do another?
From trickle down economics we are moving to the trickle-down ethics and contact phase.
Here is a more honest approach to development NAM https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/the-code
like I get the US hate, especially at the moment, but elsewhere in the thread I gave examples of this sort of thing done right, and that was also from US companies.
the root of this is a frantic terror that they might miss out on money they would otherwise have, which is and always has been the core ethos of any corporation in the world. Sonos did this wrong a while ago (by ruining the phone app that their products couldn't work without) and the company still hasn't recovered financially.
these are business decisions, and in any country where source code is copyrightable (and more importantly, patentable) the incentives will always be anticonsumer.
@khm Sure, but - compared to what everyone else is doing, this is much much better
so the point about "stop yelling at them for doing what you wanted" remains imo