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Originally Posted by wizwor
Were I an automaker, I would tout my products as OPEN. As soon as one does this, all others must follow..
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You can't seriously believe that.
It would be more accurate to say "As soon as one does this, some some statistically insignificant fraction of consumers that is the FOSS community will be pleased."
For evidence, look at...oh...every other thing in the world that has both open and proprietary options.
Most people won't care a whit either way, so other makers won't follow any more than Apple is clamoring to follow Redhat, or Amazon is clamoring to follow Hanlin.
It's only MORE so with cars, where, of the set of people who care about hacking cars' tech one way or the other, at least some of them probably want cars COMPLETELY secured against any modification, so hackers and rogue AIs can't take over and kill them.
(We can start a side thread in 'reading recommendation' to talk about books with that plot element....)