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Haier declares war on FOSS Anonymous 2024-01-20 (Sat) 23:44:29 No.12872

Tldr:
Hobby programmer partially reverse engineers internet connected home appliances to make it work with the self-hosted opensource home-assistant-project instead of the manufacturer-cloud.

The Company Haier threatens acts of legalistic terrorism as a means to effect censorship of the open-source project via intimidation. Which would amount to expropriating all the people who bought Haier appliances.

Who knew the capitalists would turn out to become the biggest expropriators. Given how large this company is, they might actually out-compete the Soviets during the collectivization. Stealing personal property never even occurred to the Soviets. Because nobody in their right mind would give a shit about people reprogramming their washing-machine or AC-unit.

Check out this link for the detailed story
https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/blob/main/takedown_faq.md

People have created over 1800 forks already.
And it has sparked a lot of negative press.
Some people in the github discussion tab are speculating that Haier might change their mind.

On the one hand this is foreboding cyber-punk horror of mega-corps fucking with your stuff.
On the other hand people might get red-pilled because socialism has full personal property rights and capitalism just doesn't anymore.

Anonymous 2024-01-26 (Fri) 03:02:03 No.12890

>>12872
It's fucking dogshit that instead of competing companies lock people into their shit and force it on them. I hope that guy wins his case.

> people might get red-pilled because socialism has full personal property rights

I think if you can nudge people in that direction they can connect the dots that this is just another thing in the long line of bullshit that all companies basically try to or end up doing. And they might recognize late stage capitalism as a thing.

But I don't get how to explain to people, even if they agree that late stage capitalism sucks, that socialism is the answer. Like they either already think that or they aren't going to listen lol.

Anonymous 2024-01-26 (Fri) 03:38:18 No.12892

>>12890
>It's fucking dogshit that instead of competing companies lock people into their shit and force it on them. I hope that guy wins his case.
I think this story had a happy end, and the company changed its mind.
<Takedown Story
<Haier sent a takedown notice and threatened legal action. The community started a big riot and called for a Haier boycott, the repository was forked over 2000+ times to make the code undeletable. Haier was made to rethink and plans to support the integration.
https://github.com/Andre0512/hon

>I think if you can nudge people in that direction they can connect the dots that this is just another thing in the long line of bullshit that all companies basically try to or end up doing. And they might recognize late stage capitalism as a thing.
>But I don't get how to explain to people, even if they agree that late stage capitalism sucks, that socialism is the answer. Like they either already think that or they aren't going to listen
I guess most people think that companies can be nudged towards being less shitty. Sometimes it works, like it appears to have this time.

It does look like the trend for "enshitification" is irreversable.
If it becomes impossible to control your technology under capitalism that's probably when people will begin to listen to ideas of fundamentally changing the system.

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