"Yeah, this won't exist."

"HeliStorm: in the birth era of the automobile, people said very similar things to what I'm saying now. The difference though is that there wasn't an elaborate bureaucracy and social safety system in place. Never mind what UAVs WILL be, with respect…"

"The comparison with cars is pretty silly and we should really drop that one. A few reasons-- there are untold millions of cars in existence; cars have enormous utility both to the economy as a whole, and for most individuals. Next to their homes,…"

"Just for the fun of injecting a little philosophical musings...
John Stuart Mills:
Your freedom ends where my rights begin, and vice versa.

And US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' colorful paraphrase:
The right to swing my fist ends…"

"Ah, Morli, sorry; to clarify, I should've said "misbehaved guys". There are the *really* bad guys too but I wasn't referencing them directly. :)"

"A lot of good ideas here. But a few points I haven't seen made...

Licenture of RTF devices will probably shrink the potential sales market size on the order of 90%. Every manufacturer is unlikely to acquiesce to this until forced to. No one will do…"

"Stefan, the problem is this is the business model of LOTS of manufacturers. Including 3DR. There's money in RTF systems, but I do think they're very likely to destroy the unlicensed side of UAV (and even R/C) flight.
There've already been a dozen…"

"> Jani, thanks for setting the record straight.  My previous *understanding* stands corrected, and I’ll take your words for it, unless whoever made that point in the first place stands for it. Like R_Lefebrvre, I saw that claim made quite some time…"

"Ok, but why were you looking for investors at all if you thought it would create a conflict?"

"Chris, since you're actively monitoring here, can you comment on your statements in the past about VC investment and community priority?

Chris Anderson
Travis: Yes, 3D Robotics (the commercial arm of DIY Drones) has not taken any external funding.…"

"> What I find quite interesting about all this lament I have read here now is that actually none of the core developers or contributors are complaining.
The handful of core development architects are 3DR employees now. Many past contributors aren't…"

"Mike, they're actually planning on discontinuing continued development on the APM boards entirely and shifting everything to PX4. So no need to worry, it'll all work with their current toolsets soon -- just have to buy their new hardware!
3DR's not…"

"Eagle (and frankly everyone else) -- my point isn't to throw bombs. I agree this is in their court to respond and I'll shut my yapper. But between the praise and "tide rises all boats" stuff should be genuine concern. $30M of VC money is real money,…"

"> Chris, please, can you elaborate on "... and a suite of software that will be announced soon as part of the Iris Consumer Edition".... that suite of software will be open?

Was MakerBot's post-VC (same VCs btw)?"

"> I hope developers are now remunerated accordingly. Is that info open?
Ha.
I've a follow-up question: what % of DIYD is owned by XYZ Capital Partners now?"