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Serious question. He seems to lack tact, saying Ford never did anything remotely useful in computer science. Why would his investors let him piss off their pote
by yalogin 10y ago
Serious question. He seems to lack tact, saying Ford never did anything remotely useful in computer science. Why would his investors let him piss off their potential acquirers that way?
- dzhiurgis 10y agoNeither Marc Andreessen nor PG seem to be particularly tactful.
- agumonkey 10y agoSorry for them, but in that department they're way below GH.
- drcross 10y agoHe basks in controversy. It greatly detracts from what he is hoping to achieve- automate humans traveling in large metal contraptions at 70mph. This is not an area for inflated egos.
- jbigelow76 10y ago"Move fast, break things"; eventual body count not withstanding, this is literally silicon valley's ethos for the last 15ish years expressed via temper tantrum.
- agumonkey 10y agoI hope he goes into space, I even have a name for his next company: astron'hotz.
- CmdrSprinkles 10y agoWhile possibly too political to discuss on HN, Hotz is a Brand. His claim to fame was rooting an iPhone and later showing the world why we can't have nice things (showing that OtherOS was a security hole and making Sony disable it) This was a continuation of that. He was hacking the future and all that crap to raise money. Once he and his backers realized there were actually regulatory boards for this (Oh no! Politics!) they had to pull out immediately. So they "fought the system" and open sourced it (not really) to show that he is A Man of The People. And most people will never care to look at the source and will (hopefully) think he invented Teslas or whatever the hell. And in a year or two, he and many of the same backers will innovate and revolutionize a new field have a new product that they can hopefully get bought out on before that field's regulatory board cares. And the buyer will know it is snake oil but will now have a reputation and a Brand to increase the value of the actual product they had been working on for years.
- agumonkey 10y agoEh the "nice things" logic is so irrelevant here, I hope nobody expected this to be true with vehicles. Apple locked ecosystem has nothing to do with ... well gravity. People either don't know or forgot that not long ago DARPA still held an open challenge to drive alone in the "desert".
- CmdrSprinkles 10y agoThe structure of my post could probably use some work. The first paragraph is background on Hotz to give context. The second was what he did at comma and why it was pseudo-open sourced. The third was why it will be effective, and the fourth is how he and his backers will profit
- agumonkey 10y agoJust in case, I didn't mean to attack you but react to potential society interpretation of Hotz persona and subtext.
- Nomentatus 10y agoThe big car companies are acting like a forty-year-old who had a year's piano lessons when they were a kid but suddenly decides they really want to become a concert pianist, now, and earn big bucks from that. They shouldn't even want in the business. The false lure of getting in on high-tech IP and abusive lock-in has 'em dazzled. Releasing superior open code puts far more air up the automotive companies' skirts than stating the obvious reason why the auto cos' private code can't beat his open code into the ground. The sooner they realize they're chasing a dream, the better for his bottom line. A little shock treatment is in order, I think.