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>the chief architect at Oculus, Atman Brinstock... gave me a precious piece of advice: "open source it". If only he followed his own advice.
by dTal 9y ago
>the chief architect at Oculus, Atman Brinstock... gave me a precious piece of advice: "open source it".
If only he followed his own advice.
- georgemcbay 9y agoWell to be fair, he doesn't own the IP he creates at Oculus, Facebook does. It is entirely possible he'd like to open source it, personally (though I have no idea if this is the case).
- supermatt 9y agoWhat would you have him open source? His employers property?
- admax88q 9y agoAs chief architect he probably has some sway to push FB to open source it. Even if he can't its pretty hypocritical for him to ask these people to open source their work, allowing Occulus to benefit from it rather than worry about them as competition.
- khedoros1 9y agoIs it hypocritical to encourage someone to open-source some IP that they own, while not being allowed to open-source some IP that you don't? It seems like a chief architect would have a lot of pull in technical decisions, but a lot less in business or legal decisions. Open-sourcing the code would have to be considered from all three perspectives.
- kirrent 9y agohttps://developer.oculus.com/blog/open-source-release-of-rift-dk2/ https://developer.oculus.com/blog/open-source-release-of-rif...