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> They are trying to tie up too much to their software which they will eventually stop supporting, like my DX1 paperweight. This is precisely why I probably wo
by ryukafalz 4y ago
> They are trying to tie up too much to their software which they will eventually stop supporting, like my DX1 paperweight.
This is precisely why I probably won't buy one despite it looking honestly very cool.
Hardware manufacturers these days seem to be allergic to telling their customers how to actually talk to their gadgets, in favor of proprietary bundles of software that inevitably go unsupported within a few years.
- paledot 4y agoHere I really don't understand why nobody open-sources their drivers when they end-of-life a product. I know some chips are covered by patent agreements blah blah, but that doesn't cover all cases. And part of a code base is better than none, even if the bits covered by the agreement need to be censored. I also think software companies should/should have to open-source products when they discontinue them like Dropbox did with Zulip (the only example I can think of offhand), but I understand why the profit motive discourages it. But surely for hardware even that tenuous rationalization goes out the window.