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Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
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[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

but it will also raise the risk of releasing new tech.

It has FOSS exemption.

Rather than simply impose a liability I would feel better about requiring orphaned IP to be opensourced so interested parties can do exactly what's happening in this case.

In a way it does that.