MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 9, 2009 @07:14AM from the enhanced-reality-is-the-only-way-to-roll dept.

yuveraj writes to mention that Pranav Mistry, the brain behind the innovative "SixthSense" application demoed earlier this year, plans to open source the technology in order to get this to the streets faster. "Mistry’s decision has meaning beyond Sixth Sense. The desire of inventors is always to get their work into the market as quickly as possible. Usually this means waiting for it to be turned into a useful, profitable invention. Mistry is bypassing this by going straight to open source. There is no report on which license he will use, but whichever one he does choose he has put paid to the canard that open source and innovation are incompatible, for all time."

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Spoiler Alert: by hatemonger · 2009-11-09 07:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Pranav Mistry is already dead.
Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-09 08:29 · Score: -1, Troll

And if your innovations are worthless? Society should continue to give you something for nothing? Sounds you just want to be paid to fuck around however you want.
The profit motive is fine. If society values your innovations, you get rewarded for it. If they don't, tough luck.