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> It's hard to fight against the might of cheap Chinese manufacturing. This has increasingly been a problem, repeatedly. Cheap overseas manufacturers see open-
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
> It's hard to fight against the might of cheap Chinese manufacturing.
This has increasingly been a problem, repeatedly. Cheap overseas manufacturers see open-source projects as free money. They are basically legally immune for what they do, can easily outcompete the original designers and project, the plans are free and cheap to modify, what's not to love? And so it's happening to not just hardware but also software, with Android being borrowed into "HarmonyOS" and so on...