Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
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Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#2So a leasing company bought the source code for $2.5 million and then cut off owners after they refused an additional deal. What was the point, then? Is there anything rational about this market interaction?
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#3Oh, not the owners of the company, the owners of the cars the company made.
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#4Oh, not the owners of the company, the owners of the cars the company made.
Yeah the headline made me think "oh god they are trying to get away with their scam for the third time".
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#5I'd buy any Tesla, even the big truck, if it came with open source software! I don't want a car that's spyware like a phone. Let me be in control of it, let me mod it, let me own it.
Who's going to sell me one?
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#6So a leasing company bought the source code for $2.5 million and then cut off owners after they refused an additional deal. What was the point, then? Is there anything rational about this market interaction?
Patent trolling
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#7So a leasing company bought the source code for $2.5 million and then cut off owners after they refused an additional deal. What was the point, then? Is there anything rational about this market interaction?
Leasing company probably thought they'd found some suckers to pay their (the leasing company's) cloud bills.
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#8So a leasing company bought the source code for $2.5 million and then cut off owners after they refused an additional deal. What was the point, then? Is there anything rational about this market interaction?
The leasing company leases these cars to Uber drivers in NYC, who presumably did not get cut off.
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#9Fisker may have been especially vulnerable to this (my understanding from some very brief searching is that core vehicle functionality required cloud check ins without fallback), but nothing about this is inherent to EVs (this is response to Weisenthal's tweet early in the article). An ICE vehicle could (and many manufacturers are increasingly pushing in this direction) have the exact same problems.
This is a much bigger problem that requires a bigger solution. I'm pretty intrigued by the mention at the end that several european manufacturers are collaborating on an opensource automotive software platform, although their track record on software isn't that encouraging.
Re: Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
#10I'd buy any Tesla, even the big truck, if it came with open source software! I don't want a car that's spyware like a phone. Let me be in control of it, let me mod it, let me own it. Who's going to sell me one?
Not exactly what you are asking for, but did you see that Rivian recently provided a way for owners to disable the vehicle's LTE connection? It's straight In Canada. In the US, you have to ask a dealer.