Sure, but that requires a skilled engineer to own the embroidery machine, and have sufficient free time and interest to devote to reverse engineering the embroidery machine. The overlap of skills and expertise there is vanishingly small for niche products, which, most discontinued products are. Any reduction in e-waste and user empowerment is a cause to be celebrated. The catalyst for GNU was not being able to fix printer drivers. For all its evils and ills, I am so happy to see useless objects essentially being “repaired” by normal people. Software are the world, but now that the world can make its own software it, for the time being, tips the balance back in favor of the common man.