▲ 590 ▼ Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 90 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 118 points 2 years ago (2 children) Doing the right thing. How rare. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children) once they threatened to abandon it sure. eventually even corporations can be dragged into doing the right thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] myplacedk@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Most companies don't listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first. It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning. But it's the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that's great! permalink fedilink source parent [–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago It’s not a corporation anymore if it ceases to exist. Sounds like the engineers are working pro bono on this initiative. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* And how great of these particular folks for doing the right thing1 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children) once they threatened to abandon it sure. eventually even corporations can be dragged into doing the right thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] myplacedk@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Most companies don't listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first. It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning. But it's the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that's great! permalink fedilink source parent [–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago It’s not a corporation anymore if it ceases to exist. Sounds like the engineers are working pro bono on this initiative. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] myplacedk@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Most companies don't listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first. It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning. But it's the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that's great! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago It’s not a corporation anymore if it ceases to exist. Sounds like the engineers are working pro bono on this initiative. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* And how great of these particular folks for doing the right thing1 permalink fedilink source parent