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Best guess - it’s about support and maintenance. For every tool out there that’s live you’re going to have a degree of overhead to deal with queries and keep it working on the latest OS, browsers etc.


Google already has a solution for this: they just ignore any and all customer support queries.


They also refunded everyone who bought the controller, so legally they don't have to provide any support.


Even if they hadn’t I’m not sure what legal right you’d have to demand service.


Google has customer support?


Unless you make it opensource?


Generally things at Google are built on a stack of private libraries and infrastructure, such that open sourcing something requires a complete rewrite. Unfortunately.


have you not seen the typical GitHub issue tracker full of entitled people?


Then archive the repo or close the issue tracker and let the people whine on some forked repo




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