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Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

The company behind this robot is going bankrupt, which is why support ends and they stop working. This law would do nothing in this case because the company seizes to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

It should be considered an obligation to be met in the bankruptcy process. If they sell the IP for the product the purchaser should have to meet it. Failing that the users should be given the IP rights (opensource would meet this def to me) then.

In just world at least

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

seizes to exist.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

*ceases, a cute voice-to-text error

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

No just a non-native English speaker error in this case

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Still cute

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

You're cute

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

You can put money and source code in escrow for this exact eventuality.