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Re:Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths by joshspankit on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:58PM (#37719735)
It’s challenging for many businesses because they worry they are one bad incident away from bankruptcy while also knowing that their staff is not perfect.

They assume they are shipping bugs and in some cases they are intentionally shipping bugs to make deadlines. It’s scary for a business to decide to make those bugs public even though most of us know the end result is better product quality and higher social capital.

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Re:Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths by TaylorAlexander on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:52PM (#37720724)
> They assume they are shipping bugs and in some cases they are intentionally shipping bugs to make deadlines.

I am sure they are, but companies making products that relate to human safety simply should not do this.

> even though most of us know the end result is better product quality and higher social capital.

I agree. I guess I wish there was more education about this in our higher institutions and I suppose at conferences. They should be asking questions about what is best for their business and we should be sharing stories of how open source can work in big business.

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