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Dehydrated@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

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Appliances giant Haier reportedly issued a takedown notice to a software developer for creating Home Assistant integration plugins for the company's home appliances and releasing them on GitHub.
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    My non-expert take on this:

    Haier claims these plugins cause the firm significant financial damage

    Don’t care. Competition is not damage.

    violate copyright laws

    Prove it.

    plug-ins developed by you […] that are in violation of our terms of service

    The plug-ins never agreed to your ToS. Better sue your customers instead.

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      Hijacking the comment to say: Fork the shit out of this repo immediately. Fuck Haier.

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          Fork it on a different platform - GitLab or something like it - we really should diversify our code repos. Microsoft has too much power with GitHub

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            I’m sure it exists outside the sphere of my knowledge, but this saga made me wonder if there’s some sort of Git/Bay-type site for software developed in the public interest, but is otherwise belligerent to corporate pressure.

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            this is an option for people who are looking for alternatives.

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          I’ll fork it on my forgejo instance

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      Yeah they have no legal basis for their ridiculous claims and demands. This company is just full of shit.

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      It is likely costing them more from whatever cloud service their platform is hosted on.

      But, that’s on them for not putting locks on their api.

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