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I'd consider buying a Fisker car if the software/firmware was open source (sh.itjust.works)
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I wouldn't be as worried about them going out of business and me being stuck with half broken car software.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They wouldn’t be selling them at their current price if they weren’t also selling every single privacy violating telemetric to the lowest bidders.

If their software was open source, they couldn’t obfuscate their tracking software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't this fall to Magna when Fisker goes bankrupt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fat fucking chance