People underestimate how much work open sourcing something acrually is. Not trying to defend Spotify, fuck Spotify, but open sourcing something isn’t free.
The code may contain some proprietary things they want to remove. Maybe it’s not up to public standards and they don’t want to be looked down upon. Maybe it could reveal vulnerabilities in other code if not cleaned up.
Maybe they don’t have 100% of the rights to the hardware in order to open source it? I don’t think they made this hardware in house. They would have had to outsource it.
Refunds cost Spotify money. Open Sourcing is free. This is an epic level of dumb.
Unless the code in car thing exposes vulnerabilities or potential exploits in Spotify. Even the potential exposure may not be worth the risk to them.
my money is on Spotify violating licensed open-source code in Car Thing, which would be revealed if they open-sourced their code.
People underestimate how much work open sourcing something acrually is. Not trying to defend Spotify, fuck Spotify, but open sourcing something isn’t free.
Honest question, why would it cost money?
The code may contain some proprietary things they want to remove. Maybe it’s not up to public standards and they don’t want to be looked down upon. Maybe it could reveal vulnerabilities in other code if not cleaned up.
There could be a lot of reasons.
Maybe they don’t have 100% of the rights to the hardware in order to open source it? I don’t think they made this hardware in house. They would have had to outsource it.