On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:33:33 +0000, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:

And if Flarm does cease co-operating with OGN, I can see Tracking
Receivers being switched off as there will be virtually nothing to
track.

It seems that the main cause of the rift has been that some OGN members
have caused the problem by refusing to honour 'stealth', i.e. privacy,
settings on the grounds that they can do whatever they like with every
bit picked up by their received and that the pilots who own the FLARM
unit being tracked have no right to say what anybody else can do with the
messages it emits.

To me this is a spurious as the Creative Commons people's view that a
creator has no rights over his work. The way forward is for OGN to get
its beans in a row and fully implement the privacy elements of the FLARM
protocol: no ifs, buts or exceptions.


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