• woelkchen@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Shame on google for providing the unlock firmware for a only limited time.

    To this day I don’t understand why Google didn’t release a reference implementation of the firmware as open source Android-style.

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      4 months ago

      Because that company is completely insane and gotten too big for their britches. Also, I feel a company that big unfortunately can’t be touched by right to repair… or does that movement even include stuff like bricked stadia controllers and bios locked laptops destined for the landfill?

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      4 months ago

      I’d imagine that some of the tech the controller users is licensed from other rights holders, so Google can’t just open source it.

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        4 months ago

        I’d imagine that some of the tech the controller users is licensed from other rights holders, so Google can’t just open source it.

        I wrote “reference implementation”, not open source the existing firmware.