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 mo

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/