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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 196 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My non-expert take on this:

Haier claims these plugins cause the firm significant financial damage

Don't care. Competition is not damage.

violate copyright laws

Prove it.

plug-ins developed by you [...] that are in violation of our terms of service

The plug-ins never agreed to your ToS. Better sue your customers instead.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hijacking the comment to say: Fork the shit out of this repo immediately. Fuck Haier.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ghetto fork it. GitHub will nuke the forks done via the fork button with the initial DMCA

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fork it on a different platform - GitLab or something like it - we really should diversify our code repos. Microsoft has too much power with GitHub

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I’m sure it exists outside the sphere of my knowledge, but this saga made me wonder if there’s some sort of Git/Bay-type site for software developed in the public interest, but is otherwise belligerent to corporate pressure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

this is an option for people who are looking for alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Move that shit to Gitlab and have some of it saved offline for good measure.

Make it like the Barbara Streisand effect but for a FOSS project lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'll fork it on my forgejo instance

[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago

Yeah they have no legal basis for their ridiculous claims and demands. This company is just full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

It is likely costing them more from whatever cloud service their platform is hosted on.

But, that's on them for not putting locks on their api.