In all fairness, Microsoft spent years buying up every major researcher in artificial vision and many other fields(to the point that Universities started complaining)and spent tens of millions developing this tech. It's something that Sony and Nintendo won't be able to duplicate without lots of money and at least another few years of R&D.
I mean sure things can be reverse engineered, but open sourcing this would instantly put Sony and Nintendo in a position to simply make their own hardware and call it a day. I'd love to see the drivers open sourced, because that's where the really interesting things are going on... but that's simply not realistically going to happen.
Microsoft really moved the field forward on this one, I completely understand their desire to make some of that money back.
I mean sure things can be reverse engineered, but open sourcing this would instantly put Sony and Nintendo in a position to simply make their own hardware and call it a day. I'd love to see the drivers open sourced, because that's where the really interesting things are going on... but that's simply not realistically going to happen.
Microsoft really moved the field forward on this one, I completely understand their desire to make some of that money back.