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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by bhhaskin on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:55PM (#19855253)
I honestly have give it quite a bit of thought as to what it would take to start an open source hardware company. Everything has a user accessable API and the option to use their own firmware if they want.
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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by hedora on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:41PM (#19855691)
The more important thing than hack-ability is that the product is rock solid.

That implies stuff like "there is one way to do it", "95+% branch coverage in unit tests", and "100,000-1M hours of automated stress testing of real hardware before shipping a new board rev."

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Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API by dec0dedab0de on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:18PM (#19855360)
and any cloud services would be AGPL
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