Where a bunch of corporate fascists took such umbrage over debate/exploration over how their corporate envisioned scenarios were to work that they started pursuing legal action? Against open source people making Home Assistant integration?
These people basically went thermonuclear in terms of cancelling possible debate & enforcing top down decision making. Utterly unwilling to listen or permit a single other opinion other than what their top-down management built.
I cannot think of a better company to serve as a warning sign for what to never ever do. Seeing yourself & your own vision of the product as God & any deviation or discrepancy or other opinion as something to be squashed. Usually lawyers aren't involved as Haier did in their quest to stop out undogmatic use, but alas this kind of managerial hubris & self importance from the product world seems all too typical & all too poisonous; an unwillingness to let anyone else explore bounds of possibility, lest it gets in the way of those egos assured they've built a perfect little terrarium for the users to play inside.
They calmed down eventually, with an incredibly useless & empty press release hinting that they were backing off. But this seems like one of the most powerful examples of a company chuffed up on hubris unwilling to permit even the hint of debates.
Where a bunch of corporate fascists took such umbrage over debate/exploration over how their corporate envisioned scenarios were to work that they started pursuing legal action? Against open source people making Home Assistant integration?
These people basically went thermonuclear in terms of cancelling possible debate & enforcing top down decision making. Utterly unwilling to listen or permit a single other opinion other than what their top-down management built.
I cannot think of a better company to serve as a warning sign for what to never ever do. Seeing yourself & your own vision of the product as God & any deviation or discrepancy or other opinion as something to be squashed. Usually lawyers aren't involved as Haier did in their quest to stop out undogmatic use, but alas this kind of managerial hubris & self importance from the product world seems all too typical & all too poisonous; an unwillingness to let anyone else explore bounds of possibility, lest it gets in the way of those egos assured they've built a perfect little terrarium for the users to play inside.
They calmed down eventually, with an incredibly useless & empty press release hinting that they were backing off. But this seems like one of the most powerful examples of a company chuffed up on hubris unwilling to permit even the hint of debates.