Companies Might Soon Have to Tell You When Their Products Will Die
If everything’s computer, it would be nice to know how long computer last.
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
No they dont, not with the current american administration.
Whoever pays the most money makes the rules. I mean, it was always like that but they don't have to hide it nearly as much.
How about getting forced to go open source when they abandon a product?
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.
I love the distaste for the word that is opposite of left/the side of the political spectrum where fascism resides
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
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.