Having hand built and written software for a lot of drones, gpsd is not mission critical in most drones and I dunno where they get that claim.
You only use gpsd for embedded hardware when you have no drivers OR you're in 2017.
As for Android... again that capability is not important to the internet. It's important to Google cheaply getting a feature launched. This seems to me to be specifically ignoring the anti-corporate-centric intent of ESR's post to elevate his importance.
This essay is important without these sub-discussions. I fully agree with ESR that capitalism fails to sustain the internet and ruthlessly rides the backs of maybe four dozen skilled individuals in the world who, when they're gone, will be sorely missed and the world will suddenly become more expensive if others don't take up the call.
I just don't think ESR is in that critical group. He might be in a group of people writing widely used software. And that's great and important. But it really doesn't seem like what he himself is discussing.
> You can narrowly define "core networking or service contributions" to exclude everyone by Linus Torvalds and Vint Cerf, but that's boring.
Both of whom are well compensated for their work, no? Seems to me like we should look more critically at who is not being served by capitalism and help them since their work has value.
You only use gpsd for embedded hardware when you have no drivers OR you're in 2017.
As for Android... again that capability is not important to the internet. It's important to Google cheaply getting a feature launched. This seems to me to be specifically ignoring the anti-corporate-centric intent of ESR's post to elevate his importance.
This essay is important without these sub-discussions. I fully agree with ESR that capitalism fails to sustain the internet and ruthlessly rides the backs of maybe four dozen skilled individuals in the world who, when they're gone, will be sorely missed and the world will suddenly become more expensive if others don't take up the call.
I just don't think ESR is in that critical group. He might be in a group of people writing widely used software. And that's great and important. But it really doesn't seem like what he himself is discussing.
> You can narrowly define "core networking or service contributions" to exclude everyone by Linus Torvalds and Vint Cerf, but that's boring.
Both of whom are well compensated for their work, no? Seems to me like we should look more critically at who is not being served by capitalism and help them since their work has value.