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So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 220 points 3 years ago (8 children)

and 3 years later they'll end the support.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

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  • [–] 72 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    A good argument for open source

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  • [–] 64 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I love my FLOSS penis

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So, soft-ware?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Sometimes it's hardware

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And even if open source doesn't fit their business model for any reason, there should be regulations that force these companies to open source everything in any situation that they stop offering support.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I've meditated about this a while now! Imagine the amount of electronic waste produced by planned obsolescence! You have a phone, TV, car and much more that could be diagnosed, repaired and reused for same or all different use cases.

    All those phones that still are running LineageOS perfectly fine that could be used by the elderly who need not have much more than basic communication.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Wow that made me so fucking uncomfortable, from the serious adverse affects requiring surgical intervention, the company trying to shout down negativity and just leaving these poor people to continue suffering….

    It’s all so horrid, I can’t imagine the stress and impact

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  • [+] -12 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    3 years later they’ll end the support

    I don't think that's a fair characterization - it sounds like they ran out of money and the company that bought all their assets didn't maintain support. In that company's defense, it's really hard to maintain support for something when you've bought the IP but you don't have any of the institutional knowledge.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe it’s a hot take but if you are giving life-altering treatments, and your company goes under, you should open-source everything

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Would that even be legal? The company has obligations to its creditors and shareholders; simply giving away potentially valuable intellectual property right before going under seems to violate those obligations. And it's the sort of violation for which someone might be personally held liable.

    I'm not claiming that a company can never open-source anything, but rather than they have to have a plausible business case for doing so. And I don't see a plausible business (as opposed to humanitarian) case here... But I'm not a corporate lawyer, just someone interested in this sort of thing.

    Edit: there's also the FDA to consider. If you make medical devices and you want to release the source code, you probably need to demonstrate that it's safe for users to reprogram their devices (and it's not safe).

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