Accurate. "For those missing context, Insteon is a smart home company that shut down suddenly a few weeks ago without notice to its users, essentially bricking

Accurate. "For those missing context, Insteon is a smart home company that shut down suddenly a few weeks ago without notice to its users, essentially bricking [=ruining, making inoperable] people's smart homes. Good for Ken and the team to take this on. I'm not an insteon user, but I hope one of the first tasks they take on is to either open source the servers, or update the system to be able to work offline, should they decide to kill the service in the future." Companies like this have no concept of open source and no concept of offline. To them, your home is their home, to traffic so as to maximize their bottom line.