Technology

59589 readers

2946 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

359

Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Refunds cost Spotify money. Open Sourcing is free. This is an epic level of dumb.

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago

my money is on Spotify violating licensed open-source code in Car Thing, which would be revealed if they open-sourced their code.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People underestimate how much work open sourcing something acrually is. Not trying to defend Spotify, fuck Spotify, but open sourcing something isn't free.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Honest question, why would it cost money?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Didn't think about that. Thanks

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Plus knowing how most companies operates, there are all kinds of secrets, API key and others in the repo that needs to be thoroughly removed before releasing to the public.