@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agoHaier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown noticewww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1799arrow-down111cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1788arrow-down1external-linkHaier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown noticewww.bleepingcomputer.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square99fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish196•5 months agoMy 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish97•5 months agoHijacking the comment to say: Fork the shit out of this repo immediately. Fuck Haier.
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish37•5 months agoGhetto fork it. GitHub will nuke the forks done via the fork button with the initial DMCA
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•5 months agoFork it on a different platform - GitLab or something like it - we really should diversify our code repos. Microsoft has too much power with GitHub
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoI’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.
minus-squareIaparlinkfedilinkEnglish8•5 months agothis is an option for people who are looking for alternatives.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoMove that shit to Gitlab and have some of it saved offline for good measure. Make it like the Barbara Streisand effect but for a FOSS project lol.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish92•5 months agoYeah they have no legal basis for their ridiculous claims and demands. This company is just full of shit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•5 months agoIt 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.
My non-expert take on this:
Don’t care. Competition is not damage.
Prove it.
The plug-ins never agreed to your ToS. Better sue your customers instead.
Hijacking the comment to say: Fork the shit out of this repo immediately. Fuck Haier.
Ghetto fork it. GitHub will nuke the forks done via the fork button with the initial DMCA
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
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.
this is an option for people who are looking for alternatives.
Move that shit to Gitlab and have some of it saved offline for good measure.
Make it like the Barbara Streisand effect but for a FOSS project lol.
I’ll fork it on my forgejo instance
Yeah they have no legal basis for their ridiculous claims and demands. This company is just full of shit.
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.