> We cannot force a company to open source code without an extraordinarily good reason. I believe in open source and support it, but at the application level it

> We cannot force a company to open source code without an extraordinarily good reason. I believe in open source and support it, but at the application level it is a trickier issue. The fact that human lives depend on the correct functioning of the code is an extraordinarily good reason. IMO, any code that can affect driving safety should be required to be released (note: this does not mean that the companies must relenquish any copyright claims, just that the code has to be publicly available for inspection). Right now this is hard to do because all the auto manufacturers like to have everything connected, so the result of this would be that everything including the in-vehicle entertainment system would have to be open-sourced. But that's the point - such a requirement would overnight force the manufacturers to implement a proper seperation between critical software and non-critical, so that they could keep the non-critical stuff closed.