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·
    9 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·
      9 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·
      9 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·
      9 months ago

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