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This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
I feel like there should be a law to release the bits we need to support these efforts.
Too many times a product will die or a company will fold along with all its documentation.
Maybe release a final firmware opening up a product. Or at the very least a git repo with api documentation.
You're presuming they they had documentation
This is also the attitude taken by Ross Scott.
Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.
There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source all associated code.
Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?
I don't care too much when it comes to early adopter tech like this, which everyone knows will be obsoleted and laughable in 1 year. But the biomedical devices - we need a law about this, so people who get sense-restoring tech implanted in their bodies don't get bricked because the company decides the product isn't viable to bring to mass market.
Philosophically agree with you, and would love to see it okay out exactly as you say.
The problem with incorporating a business is that all humans therein pretty much escape liability.
The only value is the assets and intellectual property that can be sold off to another organization. Releasing all the proprietary data brings that value down to zero.
As usual, our addiction to market capitalism means the world is pay-to-play, and the risks will always remain higher than you or I would like or need.
because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices
because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices
Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait...