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Is it just how they think, or is it the reality of the business?

Would be cool if manufacturers would make old versions of sourcecode public after a couple of years, and the final version when a product goes out of production.


I think for a lot of software businesses there is a truism that "your competition doesn't want your code, they think you're morons and you think they're morons."

But in the hardware game there is a lot of counterfeiting. There is rarely any shame or consequence when it comes to outright IP theft. Making it easier to access the firmware makes it easier for someone to counterfeit your widget.


from my experience it's:

You think the public facing representatives (management etc.) are morons, because

you think their strategy for working in the same space sucks unless

you think your company is totally blowing it and you are on your way out

but you don't think their programmers are morons so much (except when you examine site and it performs worse than yours for obvious reasons that you fixed on yours) but

if they roll out a really cool feature you can implement in your product you will write code to implement that feature and not wish you had their code because anyway your stuff is incompatible codebases unless

you get bought by them or they get bought by you or you both merge because you are in fact compatible and this way something beautiful will emerge

yeah right.


Your stuff stinks because of annoying tradeoffs and business constraints, their stuff stinks because they're idiots.


Firmware and drivers are different though. If the firmware was totally locked down then the drivers would be no use for a clone and if the firmware was taken but the drivers were proprietary the clone could just use the exact same driver binary.


> the clone could just use the exact same driver binary

This certainly caused FTDI a lot of trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTDI#Driver_controversy


Revealed preferences show that when given the choice among economically sustaiat options, customers prefer to pay value based pricing and to rebuy things they still use, instead of paying more upfront for forever products.

> when a product goes out of production.

By the time this happens, the company has lost their throwaway source code.


In terms of taking care of the environment and fighting planned obsolence, this should be mandatory. If you stop supporting your product, you must enable your customers to support themselves.


"Preliminary assessment of the responses received so far in the survey, doesn’t show any correlation between the cases that give a clear trace to follow in the investigation. In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill."

Seems unlikely that dog food is the issue, else they would have caught it by now. Dogs don't take well to quick changes in their diet either (they'd start showing some of the symptoms described), and the list of foods they shouldn't ingest is long. Recommending that people start feeding their pets human food would probably just make the whole situation a lot worse.


If it’s something that is happening simultaneously in all the country while dogs living in the same animal care are not affected seems to push strongly towards contaminated food rather than towards some mysterious non infective disease just appearing all over the country.


Yeah, but it's weird that it's a combination of extremely sudden illness (often less than 24 hours from first sign to death) and a regular stream of new cases every day.

If it were from contaminated food you would expect it to happen more abruptly, then taper out. No common food link has been found either.


The extremely sudden illness seems more compatible with poisoning than with a disease, or more precisely, I’m not aware of any disease capable of killing in less than 24 hours from the early signs, at least in humans, but I’m not anywhere near an expert on dog’s diseases. About the food distribution can be that it’s affecting only some common ingredient used by different dog foods so it will be difficult to pinpoint it. If I were in Norway with a dog I would rather avoid the common dog food until there is more clarity on what’s going on.


Yeah, the dead dogs all have the Providencia alcalifaciens bacterium: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/MRWR00/Har-ventet-i-13-ar...


Algae bloom kills dogs in an hour or two. Numerous cases is Southeastern US this August. All swam in lakes/ponds/stagnant water. Casuses acute kidney or liver failure.


> In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill

Could it be food allergy?


"In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill. This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious from dog to dog. For the time being, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority's advice on restricting close contact between dogs remains valid."

I'm looking forward to seeing what caused this. Really strange (In my non-expert mind) that it hasn't made its way to Sweden.


I wonder if it could be contaminated food/treats similar to the duck treats from China a few years ago.

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...


> Really strange (In my non-expert mind) that it hasn't made its way to Sweden.

Elsethread people are speculating that it might be due to contaminated food. Sweden is in the EU, Norway isn't, and AFAIK the EU doesn't like importing meat and other agricultural products.


Norway likes it even less. One of the arguments for staying out of EU was food safety. Not sure about pet food, though.


While Norway is importing most of its import food from the EU I highly doubt they have much better standards...

And because of certain treaties with the EU they essentially accept most EU regulation in any case.


There is a brand of Norwegian raw dog and cat food that is imported into Sweden. I'm a little bit paranoid about this outbreak even though I have cats and not dogs, so I'm holding off on purchasing it until the cause has been established and food ruled out.


Is interesting that cats don't have it. Points to something that is not present in the outdoors and environment. Cat food have also a lot of salmon and other fish.


> Is interesting that cats don't have it. Points to something that is not present in the outdoors and environment. Cat food have also a lot of salmon and other fish.

If this is an infection, we can draw no such conclusions. If it is food, it still doesn't help much – perhaps excluding some food components.


Many homes have both pets. In those cases cats steal dog food gladly and would be poisoned also. Cats have often lower weight so should be dying more easily than dogs. Is interesting because is not happening (apparently).


Norway is in the EEA and that means they are effectively bound by same rules as the rest of the EU governing trade.


The EEA free trade and common standards have significant exceptions for agricultural and fisheries products. Norway and so on are not subject to the Common Agricultural Policy or Common Fisheries Policy, and can put significant tariffs on EU products in those areas AIUI.


They are not in the Customs Union.


Only from certain countries, eg. The US cattle/meat has too many steroids for getting through food safety.


They would drop the steroids if they cared about the EU market.


EU aside, there must be brands brands that are distributed in Norway but not Sweden.


Maybe the mountains were shadowing Swedden?


> This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious from dog to dog

= Is in the digestive, but not in the saliva


Feces are actually a perfectly workable way of pathogen transmission in dogs...


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Probably not. Chocolate would cause seizures and cardiac symptoms, vomit and tremors, but not massive gut tissue destruction. And I don't remember any parasite doing this. Clostridum will cause diarrhea, not bleeding.

Is probably a poison, but not chocolate (And I'm including radiation under the "poison label" also. There aren't many things that can wipe the intestinal flora from an animal and replacing it by species that create ultra-resistent spores).

Other option would be food contaminated by spores of Clostridum, pesticides or whatever, but I guess that would be easy to spot the coincidence of a particular brand and batch of dog food in all affected animals.


I thought chocolate was toxic to all dogs.


It is toxic to all dogs.


To be fair, chocolate is not what it was. Many cheap substitutes on the market


Still toxic.


Never give chocolate to dogs! That's poisonous. Or to rabbits. Don't let them eat cake either.

Don't be murderously disservant. It's torture for animals to be served with things that fastly kill them. All of those things do.


Not to undermine how serious the situation is and that these people are risking a lot by fighting for independence, but I wish we had fewer of these 'oh my god, people are getting death threats' headlines. Anyone and everyone get hate and threats for unpopular opinions online, it's not news.


You probably won't have the option to store your playlists locally though, and streaming music with mobile net could get expensive. The other big apps without good mobile web versions are Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram. Those could be show-stoppers for some people.


Telegram Desktop would run fine on Librem 5 on Plasma Mobile (magic of QT) and clunky on Gnome (but I might be wrong), as well as APKs on Android emulator like Anbox.


I've never seen a cellphone with a soldered battery, and most of the slowdown in iPhones is caused by the OS slowing down to make up for reduced battery capacity. With apple and other manufacturers having to replace batteries in their own phones, I seriously doubt we'll ever see soldered batteries.


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