cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10882099

Thankfully I don’t use any of their products, but this really pisses me off. They claim that this open source project “causes significant economic harm to their company”

This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause “significant economic harm”???

Consider forking the repository or mirroring it to another platform like GitLab, Codeberg or your self-hosted Git server, so the project can continue to exist and someone can maybe fork it and maintain it.

The effected repos are: https://github.com/Andre0512/hOn and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

If you don’t know about Home Assistant, check it out. It’s an amazing piece of open-source software, that you can run at home on your own server and use it to control your smart home devices. That way, you don’t need to connect them to the manufacturer’s (probably insecure) cloud. It gives you sovereignty over your smart home instead of some proprietary vendor-locked garbage. Check out their website and the Lemmy community: !homeassistant@lemmy.world

I also highly recommend Louis Rossmann’s video about this: https://youtu.be/RcSnd3cyti0

He makes awesome videos in general, consider subscribing.

As Rossmann said, don’t ever buy anything from such a shitty company that doesn’t respect their customers. This move by Haier is nothing other than a slap in the face for everyone, who just wants to comfortably control the product they paid for. This company is actively hostile towards their paying customers. Fuck these bastards!

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    The developer is German, in Germany it’s pretty common to have a Rechtsschutzversicherung. You pay them monthly or yearly and in exchange you can request legal advice from one of their lawyers af any time. It’s pretty neat.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      338·
      10 months ago

      Germany sounds ridiculous with how many insurances you have to waste money and time on.

      • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        10 months ago

        You don’t have to, but if you do you may have the ability to stand up against a company trying to shut down your open source project…

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          17·
          10 months ago

          Or you could just hire a consultant when you need it?

          $200 once in your life vs 396 a year, is kinda a no brainer situation.

          • Varcour@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            You do realize a consultation is just the first step, right? If he wants to fight this he’ll need quite a bit more than 200

      • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
        33·
        10 months ago

        Not getting the downvotes, a lot of those are quite stupid. The Rechtsschutz is basically required if you drive for example, only because of game theory, not because it actually brings anything

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          25·
          10 months ago

          It’s just reddit group think, sadly we didn’t leave that behind.

          I’ve got them disabled on my instance anyway so I don’t even see it. As far as I know everyone likes my posts because I only see upvotes.