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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
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[–] 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.