I had one ordered before but the more you look at the specific language this guy uses, the more clear it becomes that he was not in it for anyone but himself. The community exists to finance his pet project.

Depending on Core’s dialogue from now on, I’m cancelling my preorder. Pebble is either FOSS or it’s dead.

I would’ve liked to believe Eric was the nice and honest guy he comes across as in his videos…

Why can’t it ever be that simple? Just once.

Doesn’t fill me with much hope, especially after my 2 Duo pre-order was cancelled because they found out there weren’t enough parts.

Apparently this is not about software licensing so much as about the services Rebble provides:

Core would spearhead the development of brand new watches, and we’d be there to provide our Rebble Web Services to go with them.

It now seems Core wants to just keep on using these services as their own. I read a few paragraphs but I gave up when they go back 9 years to explain it all.

But this isn’t the first time a company tries to steal what isn’t theirs, under the auspices of FOSS, and my benefit of the doubt definitely stands with Rebble here.

As a former pebble user, why would I throw more money at a company created by the same guy?

Fool me once…

Wait so is this about the app catalog? Because Rebble appears to be MIT-licensed open source, which means Eric can fork it and use it, even not contribute his changes back.

Either way I think we deserve some response from Eric on this.