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I heard this guy talk at DEFCON once, explaining how great he was at leveraging free work force from "opensource people" in order to make his company a success.

by zobzu 13y ago

I heard this guy talk at DEFCON once, explaining how great he was at leveraging free work force from "opensource people" in order to make his company a success. The way he worded that and how he only talked about that (almost nothing technical, more of a how did my business succeed story), made me basically dislike him forever :P I felt like he was throwing himself flowers for having found a way to get ppl to do the hard work for him. Which isn't how i see open source. :/ Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysyYKPa9Rcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysyYKPa9Rcg

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mcantelon 13y ago
Yup... the same guy that once proclaimed "the Web is dead".
contingencies 13y ago
Manufacturing and selling drones commercially is also fraught with ethical issues (a significant portion of the market is defence and related surveillance applications). Not something I'd get involved with, though this guy apparently has no qualms.
guiambros 13y ago
Well, this guy is Chris Anderson. The same guy who wrote The Long Tail, Free, was Wired editor for more than a decade, and wrote about the hardware and maker movement well before IoT became mainstream. His company created DIY Drones [1], and heavily supports ArduPilot [2], paying developers to actively contribute to the project (either through benefits, physical goods, or even equity). He's certainly not your typical business guy, trying "to get [open source] people to do the hard work for him". Chris has been involved and contributing in meaningful ways for decades, either as a thought leader, a writer, entrepreneur, or contributing to the open source community. Several other large businesses were created on top of open source communities, and have a symbiotic relationship with the community. MakerBot started as a clone of Rep Rap. Arduino was created on top of Processing IDE. Amazon AWS wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Xen. Raspberry Pi was created on top of Linux. I feel it's exactly the same with 3D Robotics (or better; e.g., MakerBot's contribution is highly controversial). Having said that, I agree that his profile and this talk wasn't a good fit for DEFCON. It'd be a better fit for Solid, or other O'Reilly conference. [1] http://diydrones.com/ http://diydrones.com/ [2] http://ardupilot.com/ http://ardupilot.com/

by zobzu 13y ago

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mcantelon 13y ago

Yup... the same guy that once proclaimed "the Web is dead".

contingencies 13y ago

Manufacturing and selling drones commercially is also fraught with ethical issues (a significant portion of the market is defence and related surveillance applications). Not something I'd get involved with, though this guy apparently has no qualms.

guiambros 13y ago

Well, this guy is Chris Anderson. The same guy who wrote The Long Tail, Free, was Wired editor for more than a decade, and wrote about the hardware and maker movement well before IoT became mainstream. His company created DIY Drones [1], and heavily supports ArduPilot [2], paying developers to actively contribute to the project (either through benefits, physical goods, or even equity). He's certainly not your typical business guy, trying "to get [open source] people to do the hard work for him". Chris has been involved and contributing in meaningful ways for decades, either as a thought leader, a writer, entrepreneur, or contributing to the open source community. Several other large businesses were created on top of open source communities, and have a symbiotic relationship with the community. MakerBot started as a clone of Rep Rap. Arduino was created on top of Processing IDE. Amazon AWS wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Xen. Raspberry Pi was created on top of Linux. I feel it's exactly the same with 3D Robotics (or better; e.g., MakerBot's contribution is highly controversial). Having said that, I agree that his profile and this talk wasn't a good fit for DEFCON. It'd be a better fit for Solid, or other O'Reilly conference. [1] http://diydrones.com/ http://diydrones.com/ [2] http://ardupilot.com/ http://ardupilot.com/