• Step 1: Kill a free open-source app with a bogus DMCA takedown
  • Step 2: Sell the same feature as a $10/mo. subscription.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20749171

  • Bezier@suppo.fiOPM
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    24 days ago

    I have two issues with Mazda here:

    using a Mazda developed API

    You cannot copyright an API. They took down a foss project by using false copyright pretenses.

    If you think all that infrastructure should be included free

    That one I actually agree with, almost. Demanding infrastructure for free is unreasonable. It’s just that the feature is artificially locked to said infrastructure. It didn’t need it in the past.

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      Also that infrastructure is already being used to steal all you data anyway. Not paying the subscription doesn’t disconnect it.