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> It’s no surprise that he is resistant. For many years now Tesla offered other car makers to use Tesla's superchargers as long as they chip in some of the cos
by kjksf 4y ago
> It’s no surprise that he is resistant.
For many years now Tesla offered other car makers to use Tesla's superchargers as long as they chip in some of the cost of building it.
It was a fair offer that no car maker took.
The Fed offers a fair deal: free money under the condition of chargers being open to all.
Tesla was always willing to open supercharging to others under fair terms so it's incorrect to label Musk as "resistant" to this. If he was "resistant", Tesla wouldn't take the deal.
- wlesieutre 4y agoIs this referring to Tesla's "patent pledge" or some other offer? Because the patent pledge was a bit of a joke. It amounted to "You can use Tesla's patents, as long as you agree not to assert any patent or other IP against any company for making EVs or related equipment." So you don't just have to let Tesla use your patents in exchange for you using theirs, you have to give them away to every competitor, whether or not those competitors are sharing their own patents. It's not surprising that no one has taken them up on this.
- farisjarrah 4y agoIf you squint, that almost sounds like an AGPL license but for physical chargers.
- wlesieutre 4y agoIf using one piece of AGPL software forced your company to release every other piece of software as AGPL too, and then people spent the next 10 years acting surprised that nobody else was willing to touch Tesla's software with a ten foot pole