The company Fisker sold an SUV, the Ocean. When they went bankrupt, they left the owners high and dry. Owners, in can-do manner, formed a partnership and reverse engineered the code and the keyfobs, and wrote an open source replacement. This is a great story. It also is a terrible story. What happened to the criminal who were let off the hook through bankruptcy.
The Stooges (not the three stooges) abhor regulation. But would regulations protect the little guys from corporate outlaws like Fisker? Here's a link to the story on Slashdot:
