Oh, and before I forget: have you seen our brand new merch store?

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Why so negative? Bands also makes merch to increase their income, should we hate on them as well?

Oh, look at that: the Linux Foundation also sells merch linuxfoundation.store - maybe you should stop using Linux?

Microsoft also has meerch, so does Android.

I can’t find any merch store for Apple, so I guess your an Apple fanboy.

Why so negative?

It’s clear that the Nabu Casa Inc. people, who also happen to be the Home Assistant project leaders, are focussed on making money over making well engineered software.

For example, Home Assistant’s settings page includes an entry for Nabu Casa Inc.'s cloud services product as the first entry as the first entry in the list which cannot be switched off easily.

Home Assistant is engineered in such a way as to make it difficult to install on operating systems that aren’t under control of Nabu Casa Inc., like Home Assistant OS or Home Assistant Container. If Home Assistant were engineered well, it would be possible to take individual Home Assistant packages and compile and install them on any distribution, as has been customary in the free software community for decades. As far as I know, there’s no reason Home Assistant must be an operating system rather than simply individual packages. Using containers as a means of software distribution is bad engineering. See feddit.uk/post/17543373 .

Bands also makes merch to increase their income, should we hate on them as well?

If a band makes selling merch their purpose, over and above making music, then I would likewise scorn them.

It’s clear that the Nabu Casa Inc. people, who also happen to be the Home Assistant project leaders, are focussed on making money over making well engineered software.

It’s clear that Paulus created a free home automation product and developed it for 5 years. For free.

In 2018 they started a fund raising system which also helped provide secure remote access for those that don’t know how to do it themselves.

I’d say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.

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I’d say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.

I think you must have a different idea of what “well engineered software” means because to me, nothing you’ve said implies a focus on making well engineered software.

Writing software without remuneration doesn’t imply a focus on well engineered software. A person can write software without remuneration with a focus on financial reward in future. Which is exactly what appears to have happened.

Helping secure remote access for those who don’t know how to do it themselves doesn’t imply a focus on well engineered software. Educating people isn’t the same thing as writing software, let alone writing good sofware.