@cloudhop@equestria.social I see... HN. I stopped using that site a long time ago.

They are also kind of contradicting themselves because they themselves are "praising" Bose for taking the right direction.

If you've never encountered this problem, then congratulations, you live in a slightly less hellish place than I do

I fear the inverse is the case. I don't consider it that harmful because I see far worse stuff.

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but that's not what they did - they clearly stated that it was a bad thing that Bose didn't get it right the first time.

The only comments I've seen so far are those on The Verge.

In general we all, including you, do judge people and companies based on past behavior. That concept is called "trust". And trust very much is a subjective matter.

@cloudhop@equestria.social Okay, I'm mostly disagreeing here.

First, words have meaning. They publicized the API. Good!
Please don't call it open sourcing, though. The license attached to that document is more on the strict side and definitely not open source. Calling it open source would be misleading.

They received praise from plenty of people (the majority of the comments on the verge, at least). They also received criticism. Both are valid. Criticizing something isn't a punishment.

You can be happy and praise Bose. Other people can still be displeased. Both are valid positions. Telling other people to shut up is what I take issue with.