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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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Why not add local controls now?
I'm extrapolating but... Because it's not finished. That's why they extended the deadline.
I don't disagree with you, but they're stepping in the right direction, at least. That's worth something these days.
I used to be an app developer before I burnt out and started a distillery
I had some software that I owned and built which had a couple of customers. I struggled to make it a commercial success but they rely on it.
It needed a big update.
Instead of just dumping it, I make it open source, with a licence that says they can do anything they want with it, so long as they don't commercialise it and try to sell it (it's designed to be internal business software so use that no probs) and they need to contribute any changes back to the source code..
I think it was the fair thing to do, plus it stops me needing to support it and they can see what the road ahead of fixing it is like.