Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    a law And if the company folding doesn’t comply, gonna fine 'em or what?

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    • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well it’s two situations. Look at Google dropping the older Nests. There you can lay in a fine.

      For the folding company could make it part of declaring bankruptcy. Standard paperwork.

      Either release all your source or prep the needful. Once this is common and expected could even force companies to maintain a public branch to release on cue.

      Owning IP is fine. Products ending up in a landfill due to software is not.

      Hopefully the law also expands to actually owning all of a product you own. Not paying BMW to unlock the heated seats already in the car you fully paid for.

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  • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re presuming they they had documentation

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is also the attitude taken by Ross Scott.

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• JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source the code

    Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?

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    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…

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