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About
About Me:
Looking to build a UAV within my hackerspace in Oakland.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in aerial photography and platform uses.
Hometown:
Oakland, CA
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"Thanks, Rob. I'm still waiting for your responses about licenses that I asked you. Feel free to reply."
"Thanks."
"Maybe I should take it up with you privately but given that I have a bunch of Chinese hardware, I'd love to know where your tree lives if you're keeping APM functionality alive."
"I agree that I was a bit confrontational but I've heard complaints about how the Chinese are "stealing" for years from certain people in the ardupilot community when, in fact, they're largely using the license in an exactly legal fashion. It is like…"
"You already can't run dome APM versions with a number of the boards. They mysteriously "don't work" (though work fine if you revert to a slightly more early version). The received wisdom, true or not, with the hobby folks I know is that this was…"
"Last I checked, the license did not prohibit "soulless leaches." I guess the project needs a better open source license that does."
"How much do you pay for your web browser, Rob? Are you stealing it by not paying or is it, perhaps, open source and freely available?"
"Let go of your aspberger's for a moment and don't hyperfocus on the percentages from a single statement.
I notice you addressed nothing of the rest of what I said.
So I'll ask again: Are you for or against open source? If you're against it, you're…"
I notice you addressed nothing of the rest of what I said.
So I'll ask again: Are you for or against open source? If you're against it, you're…"
"People should be asking themselves, "If this is an APM clone, does it violate the license it is released under?" If the answer is "yes," then look to remedies, legal and otherwise. If it doesn't violate the license, then quit complaining because…"
"I buy cheap clones because I have something like eight drones. I'm not sticking a $250 set of electronics in each one. I stick high end electronics in one or two and I buy the rest from China. Sorry if you find that so offensive (actually, I'm not).…"
"Why do they have to "justify" buying cheap clones? Is it open source or not? If it is, then anyone can use the source to make something to sell unless you've stuck a non-commercial license.
It sounds like the real problem is that you're…"
It sounds like the real problem is that you're…"
"People will pay for things if they feel the cost is reasonable and for the convenience and support of a project. If the cost is 4X (which it has been before) as a price difference, there has to be a reason to pay that fourfold cost beyond "it feels…"
"Part of the reason I use 3DR stuff (and I've bought a full quadcopter from them before) is because it is open source. If they go closed source, then they really are just another drone business and I'll just go where the feature set and cost make the…"
"Again, Rob, you're putting words in the mouths of others. It is a dishonest debate trick or do you think I or anyone here said those words in quotes ("rip off")?
I work in open source for a living. The whole point of it is that it is open and…"
I work in open source for a living. The whole point of it is that it is open and…"
"Last I checked, 3DRobotics had facilities in San Diego, as well, and its main office is in Berkeley.
As to cost of airframes. Well, my drones aren't $3000 precious babies. They're 3D printed or made out of carbon tubes and wood, as often as not. I…"
As to cost of airframes. Well, my drones aren't $3000 precious babies. They're 3D printed or made out of carbon tubes and wood, as often as not. I…"
