• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Right, but what I’m saying is how many people do you think will be able to track down the new open-source project and connect it to their hardware?

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      8 months ago

      You don’t think it will be mentioned in any of the articles about the hardware being abandoned?

      But community projects would very likely also allow third parties to provide services that handled the legwork for customers if they preferred as well.

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      8 months ago

      Because if the community solutions are good enough then half the articles about the shutdown will mention it

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      8 months ago

      Word does spread and if there are enough of a group, people will likely setup 3rd party hosting solutions around supporting abandoned abut functional products.

      But the secondary effect is likely to be that companies support their products for much longer.