Appliances giant Haier reportedly issued a takedown notice to a software developer for creating Home Assistant integration plugins for the company's home appliances and releasing them on GitHub.
  • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1641·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Dehydrated@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      79·
      11 months ago

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

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      12·
      11 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.

    • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

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