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I helped out a bit with ADSBExchange. The all volunteer staff were completely blindsided by this. The founder just took a payday and ran. For what it is worth,

by mike_d 4y ago

I helped out a bit with ADSBExchange. The all volunteer staff were completely blindsided by this. The founder just took a payday and ran. For what it is worth, I don't actually know what the PE company bought. I guess the historical data and a rack full of servers - but the staff, community, and service are moving elsewhere.

nocoiner 4y ago
One would think there would be recent lessons to be learned on how to vaporize value in connection with an asset-light acquisition… Actually, the guy who sold probably did learn those lessons. Best of luck to the buyer, I suppose.
totoglazer 4y ago
Where to?
- dx034 4y ago
  Opensky seems to be the only non profit network left?
  - fires 4y ago
    It's the only one that was always a non-profit by the way - the fact that ADSBX was an LLC should have been a giveaway, also to the employees/volunteers.
- KirillPanov 4y ago
  This would be a great use for nostr. Instead of everybody uploading their data to one dude who can sell out, instead flood-fill it. We're not talking about a lot of data here.
  - mike_d 4y ago
    > We're not talking about a lot of data here It is actually a massive amount of data. Gigabits per second that need to be aggregated, sorted by geographic region, fed into multilateration systems, and cleaning the output before it can be shown on a map.
tpmx 4y ago
The founder is Dan Streufert. (From the linked press release.)
wkat4242 4y ago
Really good to know!! I'll join them.
0x457 4y ago
Can't blame the founder, though. I would have done the same.
kuschku 4y ago
Sounds just like freenode 2.0. Some investor buying the domain, and everyone else just moving on to a new project.
- account42 4y ago
  I think the Freenode takeover could have worked without loosing the majority of the channels if rasengan hadn't tried so hard to kill the network. After all, Freenode was a free service people were making use of and as long as it was run somewhat competently most wouldn't have cared too much about operator drama. Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity.
  - Kye 4y ago
    >> "Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity." Most people with a smartphone. I do enjoy more precise GPS even if it means Apple and Google are soaking up Wi-fi hotspot info to improve triangulation. I think the difference is most people don't realize they're feeding this info to companies.
    - gkbrk 4y ago
      You can run Tower Collector and feed that data to Mozilla and OpenCellID instead.

by mike_d 4y ago

nocoiner 4y ago

One would think there would be recent lessons to be learned on how to vaporize value in connection with an asset-light acquisition… Actually, the guy who sold probably did learn those lessons. Best of luck to the buyer, I suppose.

totoglazer 4y ago

Where to?

dx034 4y ago
Opensky seems to be the only non profit network left?
- fires 4y ago
  It's the only one that was always a non-profit by the way - the fact that ADSBX was an LLC should have been a giveaway, also to the employees/volunteers.
KirillPanov 4y ago
This would be a great use for nostr. Instead of everybody uploading their data to one dude who can sell out, instead flood-fill it. We're not talking about a lot of data here.
- mike_d 4y ago
  > We're not talking about a lot of data here It is actually a massive amount of data. Gigabits per second that need to be aggregated, sorted by geographic region, fed into multilateration systems, and cleaning the output before it can be shown on a map.

tpmx 4y ago

The founder is Dan Streufert. (From the linked press release.)

wkat4242 4y ago

Really good to know!! I'll join them.

0x457 4y ago

Can't blame the founder, though. I would have done the same.

kuschku 4y ago

Sounds just like freenode 2.0. Some investor buying the domain, and everyone else just moving on to a new project.

account42 4y ago
I think the Freenode takeover could have worked without loosing the majority of the channels if rasengan hadn't tried so hard to kill the network. After all, Freenode was a free service people were making use of and as long as it was run somewhat competently most wouldn't have cared too much about operator drama. Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity.
- Kye 4y ago
  >> "Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity." Most people with a smartphone. I do enjoy more precise GPS even if it means Apple and Google are soaking up Wi-fi hotspot info to improve triangulation. I think the difference is most people don't realize they're feeding this info to companies.
  - gkbrk 4y ago
    You can run Tower Collector and feed that data to Mozilla and OpenCellID instead.