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What happens when your cloud service just pulls the plug - Insteon gone

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xrunner:

--- Quote from: cdev on April 29, 2022, 02:29:07 pm --- " “War is too important a matter to be left to the military.” it was once said ...

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Yes it was Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France during the First World War.

"“War is too important to be left to the generals”

I remember it from the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

station240:

--- Quote from: free_electron on April 27, 2022, 04:48:43 am ---They have a french cafe in their building. They probably burned their last money on overpriced paintstripper

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Yup, that and the rent of a building in SF.
Honestly these IT companies are their own worst enemy, they could setup this office just about anywhere in the world, yet they chose a city with insane, unsustainable property prices.
And then the vital part of the service (the server and the min 2 people who would be needed to keep it running), is not a separate entity ?

I'm just sick of the amount of e-waste this nonsense business model generates.

madires:

--- Quote from: station240 on April 30, 2022, 11:52:34 am ---I'm just sick of the amount of e-waste this nonsense business model generates.

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It's called "after me, the deluge". A big problem in cases like Insteon is the legal protection of IP. Possibly it will be sold to some IP troll for monetization. Any alternative firmware/service may have a hard time to fend off a greedy IP troll. For that reason some campaigners already suggested that IP of an EOLed product should become public domain. IMHO, it's not possible to simply do this because part of the IP might live on in newer product. But it should be feasible to make the hardware public domain as one can reverse engineer it anyway, and to allow any use of the hardware without the fear of litigation by the IP owner.

cdev:
That would create a big flood of corporations attem[pting to monetize all "abandoned" common property. The powers that be now dont recognize the concept of a public domain, in case you didnt notice..

This also happened during the great enclosure.. Everything that was shared was taken away...Thats basically its intent.

cdev:
I used to know SF very well, lived there for 30 yrs. What building are you talking about?

I agree that it became insanely expensive at the end. The intent was to drive the peons out.  Even though they paid rent, it was never enough. IT didnt keep up with inflation. So ...

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