[rorychatt]

Why is significant economic value the metric for success?

Skoda publishes the research and design openly (no patent, no product for sale), to solve a real problem (increase in bike-related accidents from noise cancelling headphones), to ensure that the safety outcome can be spread as quickly and easily as possible.

We should be celebrating companies that open source material findings related to safety, not lambasting them for not exploiting it for maximum value.

it feels disingenuous to lump this in with most of the other items you listed.