Re:Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
by georgemcbay on Sunday January 21, 2018 @09:37AM
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Well to be fair, he doesn't own the IP he creates at Oculus, Facebook does. It is entirely possible he'd like to open source it, personally (though I have no idea if this is the case).
Re:Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
by supermatt on Sunday January 21, 2018 @09:42AM
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What would you have him open source? His employers property?
Re:Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
by admax88q on Sunday January 21, 2018 @01:48PM
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As chief architect he probably has some sway to push FB to open source it.
Even if he can't its pretty hypocritical for him to ask these people to open source their work, allowing Occulus to benefit from it rather than worry about them as competition.
Re:Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
by khedoros1 on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:09PM
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Is it hypocritical to encourage someone to open-source some IP that they own, while not being allowed to open-source some IP that you don't?
It seems like a chief architect would have a lot of pull in technical decisions, but a lot less in business or legal decisions. Open-sourcing the code would have to be considered from all three perspectives.
If only he followed his own advice.