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It's weird to ask "what the point of open sourcing this product", do you ask what the point of keeping the source closed is?
What benefits do you get from this device being open source? It's not like a dumb mp3 player is stealing your data. Can it do anything traditional players can't?
what benefits do you get from that painting being blue? what benefits do you get from eating an orange vs an banana? explain yourself.
This might be the more inane and useless response I've seen on Lemmy. You can't answer the simple question so you throw out a complete change of topic. Pathetic.
I'm making a point, I'm not actually asking you to answer those questions....
That's not relevant at all.