Luna Rogue 🏳️⚧️🤖I feel like Right to Repair needs to include "right to update the thing to use third party servers" or something like that. We're creating e-waste just by preventing FW updates to point my litter box at anything but a hard coded URL signed by some keys that'll expire in a few years.
グレェ「grey」@lunarogue this kind of work does happen, but it is rare and sporadic. One of my past employers was instrumental in neohabitat (which reimplemented a lot of proprietary server side code in a libre/free open source manner to facilitate the preservation of Habitat, the first MMO). Albeit, that employer had a Library of Congress granted DMCA exemption, the help of Randy Farmer (one of Habitat's original devs and creator of the JSON struct) and did various other software preservation work.
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Polaris Team's Polaris Private Server for Phantasy Star Online is a similar idea maybe with less attention or support?
Moreover, those examples are just from gaming.
It is far more critical to have open source in systems as related to government. How can any government claim to be transparent, if the systems' source code is not available?
Legislation that occurs in such secretive manners would be considered extralegal in most settings.
Power plays of corporations & evil doers.