If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It 245
ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine is proposing big companies like Cisco and Sony consider 'open sourcing' their failed or discontinued products. The list includes Sony's AIBO and QRIO robots, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Ricochet Wireless, Potenco's Pull-Cord Generator, Palm, Microsoft's SPOT Watch, CISCO Flip Camera and more. MAKE is also encouraging everyone to post about what products they'd like to see open sourced."
Re:Complicated rights issues (Score:5, Informative)
Except that without the rights to redistribute that code, you're advocating copyright infringement.
Re:AIBO is dead? (Score:2, Informative)
Incorrect.
You forget the moment in 2008 when Sony paid Warner Brothers a metric shit-ton of cash to go Blu-Ray Exclusive.
Before that moment, HD-DVD was outselling Blu-Ray. It was really that simple.
Can take a lot of work (Score:4, Informative)
Re:AIBO is dead? (Score:3, Informative)
The link I meant to post was this: http://www.betanews.com/article/Bluray-Disc-Sales-Surpass-HD-DVD/1172267610 [betanews.com]
Here [crunchgear.com] is another link:
Blu-ray outsold HD DVD by a nearly 2-to-1 margin for the first nine months of the year, selling 2.6 million units to HD DVD’s 1.4 million.
Again, this story was like 8 months before Warner switched. Sorry, but your post is historical revisionism nonsense.