I have a few links that I'm going to share today.
First a post written by Ars Technica titled Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life and found via slashdot. This is great, really great. I dislike Bose. I love that Bose is doing this and I really want all manufacturers to open source their older hardware. I understand that sometimes this isn't possible. Open-sourcing a phone that has iterative upgrades doesn't make sense in the hardware-as-a-service / you-don't-own-anything-anymore model that we find ourselves in. It seems to me that corporations are more concerned with profits over a sustained environment.
I found via Hacker news about the EU banning destruction of unsold merchandise speaks of a different kind of nonsense. Why is this even a thing? I had known of tech companies destroying unsold product (see the ET Atari cartridge fiasco) and product that was nearly perfectly functional but returned or replaced under warranty as shipping it back becuase descrution was cheaper than shipping and repairing but I was completely caught unaware by unsold and new merchandise being destroyed. I can only assume that this is because sales targets were not reached and a tax write-off is preferrable to actualy selling products in a secondary market. It could also be that they decided after production that artifical scarcity is valuable in word of mouth virality for the next season of products. Finance is a funny thing.