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Already seeing a lot of people in ADS-B Discords saying they are cutting off their feeds because they feel sold out.
by robbiet480 4y ago
Already seeing a lot of people in ADS-B Discords saying they are cutting off their feeds because they feel sold out.
- myself248 4y agoIs the codebase open / is anyone spinning up an alternative yet?
- notahacker 4y agoNot sure how it matches feature for feature, but https://opensky-network.org https://opensky-network.org has been crowdsourcing unfiltered ADSB data for longer, provides tools to view the data and supplies full API access to the raw data to academics and non-profits at no charge. There's room for another provider, and at the same time lots of enthusiasts with the boxes will carry on sending it, like they do to other closed source, profit-making ventures like FlightAware and Flightradar24...
- myself248 4y agoAlright, so OpenSky and ADSB Hub are the two I've learned about so far in this thread. Very cool.
- mike_d 4y agoAirframes.io is where everyone is moving to.
- H8crilA 4y agoNote that at the moment aiframes is for a completely different type of aviation-produced data (messages: acars, hfdl, vdl, ...). I am assuming that airframes.io will create an ADS-B feed too, now that the best open system (adsbexchange) is gone.
- rektide 4y agoIf you go to https://github.com/airframesio/ https://github.com/airframesio/ , it talks about how they want to eventually open source stuff, but mercy, like 90% of their stuff is private right now. I would absolutely not go to airframes.io in it's current state.
- theyknowitsxmas 4y agoEveryone is moving to airframes.io Also this from SoylentADSB: > CEO of JETNET ( Greg Fell, now fired from JETNET by Silversmith) called and asked for a meeting. We thought was sales call. Turns out he offered to buy ADSBx from Dan for $8M, they wined dined and toured him around. Flew him to Boston, Dan cut us out when we ALL OBJECTED to a sale. We think they gave him $20M ish and a $200 a year job at JETNET. They'll fire him in a year, that's what PE does.
- metadaemon 4y agoThat guy is such a whiner
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- BizarreByte 4y agoI can understand the community upset, but honestly? I wouldn’t be able to say no to that amount of money. I could retire tomorrow on that much.
- H8crilA 4y agoIndeed. There must be safeguards to prevent something like this, the incentive is too strong. Kinda like what GPL does to the code.
- hardcopy 4y agoLike decentralization? That's the main reason I am now on the Fediverse (via Elk + self hosting), because a billionaire cannot just scoop it up and change the rules of the game.