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Would it? Especially as it's FOSS - rising ship raises all tides and all that. If it was behind closed doors, then yes. (Usual IANAL a lawyer disclaimer, and
by lvturner 2y ago
Would it? Especially as it's FOSS - rising ship raises all tides and all that.
If it was behind closed doors, then yes.
(Usual IANAL a lawyer disclaimer, and I don't mean my comment to shoot yours down - think there is merit in further discussion here!)
- mmooss 2y ago> Especially as it's FOSS - rising ship raises all tides and all that. That's anti-competitive, at least in many ways. I doubt Ford could freely give GM some highly profitable technology to help GM's profits; Ford should maximize its advantage. OTOH, there are industry standards - but those could be defined by performance or they could possibly be for (non-competitive?) aspects like safety.
- nhinck2 2y agoIt's anti-anti-competitive, they aren't only giving it to GM. Similarly Volvo giving away seat belt designs was not anti-competitive and neither would this.
- lvturner 2y agoGiven the results are given to all and open to changes from all - I'm not sure how this is anti-competitive? Do you mean a scenario where-by it's tuned to run on only hardware that is controlled by the vested parties, effectively locking out other players on the hardware level, while strengthening the desirability of said hardware by leveraging a greater number of software engineers under a somewhat false premise?