Whats sad is it doesn’t even take much knowledge of technology to know the whole of Sunbirds “product” was a terrible idea even outside of security concerns.
“Hey! I’ve got a brilliant idea for a product that absolutely could not fail!, lets reverse engineer one of the prime services of one of the most protectionist and litigious companies in the world and publicly advertise and try to sell it to their competition and potential users as some sort of magic compatibility layer”! What could possibly go wrong?
It was a worse idea than Dolphin thinking they were going to get away with trying to monetize their Nintendo emulator.
EDIT: I was mistaken about Dolphin looking to charge for their emulator when they put it up on Steam, as pointed out by a few folks in the comments. They were just looking to distribute it on the platform. Still seems like wishful thinking to me though when talking about something related to Nintendo and IP.
Imagine buying into this product fully, and suddenly being unable to use it. Sure, it shouldn’t have existed, and people shouldn’t have used it… But they did.
Hopefully, people start to realize that shuffling all your data into a single data silo, even if it’s open source, is a poor idea when that data silo is accessible from the web.
*cough*Matrix*cough*
Its gotta be accessible somehow. What difference does it make if its accessible via the web or not?
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