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by syshum 1702 days ago
I like hardware. Love it infact.

For me the subscription service itself is not the issue, it is far far far too expensive for what they offer in it, and they have broken my trust.

The first thing I did after their announcement was disable auto-updates, I dont really use their cloud services anyway prefering to interact with the device either with SSH or a 3rd party tool (RCU), my fear now is a future update will disable SSH and the ability for people to opt-out of their cloud.

I am grandfathered in, so I get it for free, but I have no intention of using

Today if I needed to replace my device I would buy a SuperNote A5X
1 comments
COGlory 1702 days ago
disabling ssh would violate GPL licensing, right?
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Fnoord 1702 days ago
No, what makes you think that? OpenSSH isn't even GPL.
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chrismorgan 1702 days ago
Excerpt from my reMarkable → settings → Help → Copyrights and licenses → General information:

> The General Public License version 3 and the Lesser General Public License version 3 also requires you as an end-user to be able to access your device to be able to modify the copyrighted software licensed under these licenses running on it.

> To do so, this device acts as an USB ethernet device, and you can connect using the SSH protocol using the username 'root' and the password 'hunter2'.

(Incidentally, “an USB”—are they pronouncing “usb” as one syllable or something?)

So COGlory is actually roughly right. They could disable SSH, but would need to replace it with something at least vaguely similar for GPLv3 and LGPLv3 compliance for other parts of the software.

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