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David Ankers commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduCopter unboxing!!!
"There is another thing you should add when talking about MikroKopter, you have no commercial use fee either. MK charges 1000 euro license if you want to use their product for commercial work.

That frame looks very nice and there is a lot of work…"
Aug 13, 2010
David Ankers commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Beta Windows version of Xplane/Flight gear interface for ArduPilot APM
"> Im wondering what people want, do you want a single exe, that does what you think it would, or if i include some other dlls we can have graphs? what do you guys think?

Is this a closed source app?"
Aug 8, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"Please understand it was not a dig or anything. I would 100% remove those caps if you want Helis and Quads to behave well, on fixed wing you will be fine with them. Also, talk to Invensense, it will save some time.

I will be surprised if the caps…"
Aug 4, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"> The only way you'll survive is by continually staying ahead of the game - which is GREAT if you can - but that sounds like a heap of stress to me!

It is also a great way to annoy users if you do this by releasing new hardware all the time and a…"
Aug 4, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"> I'm curious why you say "I do not feel that it is right to do a for-profit". Don't you think you should be compensated for your efforts? At the very least, don't you think that your expenses should be covered by the folks that benefit from your…"
Aug 4, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"> In short, is it OK for me to build ArduPilot clones and sell them for profit?

It is legal and their license allows it, but is it the right thing to do? IMHO no, I would not do this. I am very clueless with all this but my opinion is, this is not…"
Aug 4, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"That would be dishonest, 3D Robotics are a for profit company. Spinning it another way is the type of thing that will lead to massive blow back anyway, they work with an above 200% profit margin as Chris has stated. It is a for profit business and…"
Aug 4, 2010
David Ankers commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post Updates on ArduCopter 3D Model
"Aha, that makes sense, so to put it in a simple way, the objects are not really real but are parsed and drawn by a script. They will not exist as just models to simply be exported, to make a model somehow the script needs to be parsed first as they…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"Well maybe things need to change at OpenPilot? There is a lot of valid points there from both of you, thank you. Things are certainly no where near as far along as ArduPilot, perhaps because of the architecture needs more time than using Ardunio?…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post Updates on ArduCopter 3D Model
"Glad you have that covered, frames are looking very very nice, awesome work.

@Fab, this might be useful: http://www.vuedehaut.fr/Quadri/3d.html

Just looking at Lightwave, stunning application, I did a lot of 3D studio back when it ran on DOS but…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post Updates on ArduCopter 3D Model
"I just noticed the motor wires are going inside the frames as well, this is not the same as in real life is it? This was done by a few people with MikroKopters and it causes the wires to rub on the slots and then they short against the frames…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on Sandro Benigno's blog post Updates on ArduCopter 3D Model
"This is immensity impressive work, it looks like a photo, the KDA motors are simply stunning. Can you write more about yourself and how this was done. There is no way this is a hobby for you, you must be in the film industry or something. How long…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"Pete, Plone is really nice if we are talking about the CMS, I know Qt use it for example, very cool.

I have been through the same thing with the Wine Project as this moved from a BSD license to a GNU license. Where the original authors could not be…"
Aug 3, 2010
David Ankers commented on bGatti's blog post Fareed's Recommended Book - Patent law lead to Innovation, Steam engine, Revolution
"Chris, you are not at all "renouncing" your copyright. You are choosing how you license your work, I am astounded, honestly, by that comment. Copyright is retained by the author, he is free to license his or her's work in whatever manner they wish.…"
Aug 2, 2010
David Ankers commented on Jason Short's blog post X-Plane HIL simulator, now with Auto Takeoff and Landing
"Additionally, I can help you with Flightgear support if you wish, it is very simple. Inside this directory you will find an xml file, this is the protocol definition file for Flightgear. You will see the items to input and the items you desire to be…"
Jul 21, 2010
David Ankers commented on Jason Short's blog post X-Plane HIL simulator, now with Auto Takeoff and Landing
"I hope this link works.

If not, it is in websvn under ground/share/openpilotgcs/models

You can tag the Easystar directory and just download it from that interface. It is a 3DS with all the textures in separate files, the model is perfect, the…"
Jul 21, 2010
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