As pointed out by your friend Mike earlier, you are incorrectly barking up the wrong tree.
There is nothing stopping anyone from having a go a producing at equivalent product for $10 that is better and could easily replace every Flarm on the planet with their own solution. In time, this might happen if low cost high volume (think Drones) ADSB like products (or similar) arrive on the scene. (go search what Google have funded in this space) As that has not happened yet, its probablty not econically attractive to do so. But you are welcome to try. In the meantime, Flarm have the rights to protect their business and the good service they provide to the community. In fact, its their prime responsibility to their shareholders. If you feel they don't, they by all means and at your cost, go sue them. When you have wasted your first $100,000 in lawyers fees please let us all know. > On 7 Mar 2016, at 12:09 PM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Richard Frawley <rjfraw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Flarm have done a great job over the many years supplying a reliable, life >> saving product that cost less than some of your Varios. > > That doesn’t give them a right to a monopoly. > >> Like you Mike, they have every right to protect their IP and make a living. >> I don’t see you rushing to Open Sourcing your codes. > > Nobody is talking about open sourcing code. We’re talking about standards. > > You know this, because I made the same distinction on Friday. > > Standards are ROUTINELY open. If they weren’t, you wouldn’t have been able to > send your email message or receive this one. > >> Open Source has its place, as does Proprietary supply. > > You’re talking about “source”, so you’re having the wrong argument. Nobody > cares about FLARM’s source code. > >> Right now, Flarm licence their code and design to 9 other parties. Those >> parties add their own value into the supply chain. As such, its a >> competitive market. > > It would be a competitive market if it was possible for a competitor to > launch a competing product without paying some of their profit margin to > their competitor in the form of a license fee. > > It is not possible to play in this market space at the moment without > enriching FLARM. > > It is not possible for a consumer to vote with their wallet, because no > matter where they send their money, FLARM skims the cream. > > It isn’t a competitive market, it’s a restraint of trade. > > - mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
