ok, so not some paradise. Next step, it's Europe so they could just make a law preventing this, perhaps disallow locked apis, or having to publish the details if they do end of life things.
The us should do this too. But we aren't. We have problems like John Deere locking down fixing farming equipment - replace some electric part of your gear and you have to haver an API key to "unlock it" to work. This problem already exists on car parts. It can reduce motivation for someone to steal such car parts, but it seems to mostly be a revenue line for car makers, prevents third party replacements too.
Alive-in-2025|4 months ago
The us should do this too. But we aren't. We have problems like John Deere locking down fixing farming equipment - replace some electric part of your gear and you have to haver an API key to "unlock it" to work. This problem already exists on car parts. It can reduce motivation for someone to steal such car parts, but it seems to mostly be a revenue line for car makers, prevents third party replacements too.