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If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It

Posted by timothy on from the get-some-goodwill-for-your-investment dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Won't Happen by Bibz · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In theory it's a good idea and would benefit everybody, but like parent said, it probably won't happen for many reasons.

    An other reason :
    - There might be some trade secrets embedded in the products

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