At 11:42 21 March 2015, wrote:
Which is just as well, as OGN won't sell you one!
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Well, just to clarify- "OGN" is not selling anything to anyone. Apart
from
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ideas and inspiration to do cool things (I hope ) And OGN is not
forcing=
anyone to use one and only one solution (as some other companies do).

OGN needs to distance itself from any Tracker other than Flarm itself,
to
ensure the co-operation of Flarm.
Don't see any reason for that. OGN has never said it was purly "FLARM's
toy=
". FLARM could have had done it years ago, did not take its chance. It's
di=
fficult to imagine that so many people would voluntarily sacrifice their
ti=
me and money in the name of building (for free!) a highly distributed
netwo=
rk which would then only be bound to one commercial company.
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OGN proposes a platform, on which FLARM can be very important player,
but
n=
ot the only one. And many of the OGN members (me included) strongly
believe=
in openness of the protocols - and that is what OGN now proposes under
"OG=
NTP".

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Personally I see Tracker as a solution looking for a problem.

In which sense? Nobody forces you to build/have/fly with one.=20

Cheers
Wojtek


I am looking forward to the OGN tracker, I already have most of the parts
and am just waiting for a couple of other bits to arrive from China, it is
truly
low cost and in no way competes with FLARMS offering, it is is a pure
tracking/logging solution, and does not ofer any collision warning so I
cannot
see why FLARM are so set against it (unless they are planning to offer a
similar device?)
Being community developed it will be something that can quickly change to
add features that pilots want in much the same way that projects such as
XCsoar develop and grow based on what people want to see.
I feel it is wrong to be blackmailed with threats by a commercial business

who only offer a closed system and seem determined to prevent innovation
from anyone else.
Ben.