b264 said:
BalorNG said:
b264 said:
This is fantastic. Seriously.
The only problem is that it's not "difficult" or "time consuming". They can just post a couple text files from their computer for free and it's done, they have abided by the license terms.
This isn't something that needs a whole team to engineer a fix for.
It literally is free and takes a couple minutes.
It is good they're going to work that into their schedule, though legally they should wait to ship any more units until they complete that.
Things are rarely as simple as they seem to be. For instance, engineers might be 100% willing to do that, but some obscure marketing guy 'higher up' had some made-up reasons to say no.
'Flipsky' is not a shop run by a couple of engineers, but pretty large business and chinese basically *invented* bureaucracy.
It's literally the law and the engineers should be doing this anyway as part of their work. You don't need to ask permission to follow the law at work. You just do it as part of the coding you're doing. It's as much a part of the process as compiling is.
If you were a truck driver, you don't need to ask your boss for permission to stay under the speed limit.
I'm yet to find a jurisdiction where multi kW electric skateboards are allowed on public roads or pavements, but no one seems to give a shit about that around here... Not least Benjamin and Frank who seem to make money selling these devices that are clearly not legally used.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=8qcKsdWvNV0&feature=emb_logo
Adherence to safety standards are another thing you "just do as part of your job"... Do any electric skateboard manufacturers even attempt to comply?
I mean frock... Ben and Frank's marketing literature, for illegal/illegally used products is full of activity that's not only illegal but poses immediate danger to the general public. But their GPL is being violated by releasing a compiled binary?
Cry me a river.