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With free software no one can shut down a service like they are doing. A product will continue to function and it will continue to receive updates as long as th

With free software no one can shut down a service like they are doing. A product will continue to function and it will continue to receive updates as long as there is enough interest by the open source community in that product. Let's take for example Android smartphone, there are some old smartphone that thanks to the community are still updated to the latest version of the OS, on the other side when Apple say it's done you take your outdated iPhone and toss it in the bin, no one can continue to support it.

icebraining 9y ago
They aren't shutting down a service, they are updating a product. Specifically, they are releasing a new version of the speakers firmware that removes support for the protocol used by CR100. All you wrote regarding Android is true, and that's why as I said I support the FSF and Free Software in general, all I'm saying is that you can't take that community for granted. Maybe someone would appear to re-add support for the CR100 to the new firmware - or maybe nobody would.