• istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Refunds cost Spotify money. Open Sourcing is free. This is an epic level of dumb.

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      6 months ago

      Maybe they don’t have 100% of the rights to the hardware in order to open source it? I don’t think they made this hardware in house. They would have had to outsource it.

    • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Unless the code in car thing exposes vulnerabilities or potential exploits in Spotify. Even the potential exposure may not be worth the risk to them.

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        6 months ago

        my money is on Spotify violating licensed open-source code in Car Thing, which would be revealed if they open-sourced their code.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      People underestimate how much work open sourcing something acrually is. Not trying to defend Spotify, fuck Spotify, but open sourcing something isn’t free.