Very interesting perspective indeed. You buy a device, and it is not
written it expires.
Now see the END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT just released.
Do you want to download the firmware (otherwise the old one expires)? Then
you must agree on the new rules.
Point 3 . It is understood that the software has an expiry date and must be
replaced once per year.

It is not written anywhere that the firmware will be always provided for
free, forever.
On the contrary, they put a pramble: an update to the similar TCAS system
costs $20.000-$50.000 per aircraft
And now you also need to be part of the Aircraft Maintenance Program.
great deal, indeed.




"kirk.stant" wrote in message
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On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:18:50 AM UTC-5, pcool wrote:
Now I understand, thank you very much.
Well it seems OGN is going to pay back the privacy issue. Their OGN
tracker
is going to expire in a few days, and they will now pass through Flarm to
get the data decrypted.
Stealth mode was easy to accomplish, very strange, and a very sad
conclusion. But I agree that the privacy goes first, it wasnt that hard to
deal with, at all.

I really don't understand your point. Flarm develops a proprietary product
that gets adopted by a large part of the gliding community, then gets hacked
and used by a bunch of techno glider geeks. Flarm responds by protecting
their (as in, THEY DEVELOPED AND OWN IT) technology and responds to a market
demand (tracking) by enhancing their system to provide features such as
privacy for those who were previously affected by the (possibly illegal)
hacked OGN network.

And you think Flarm acted incorrectly? Really?

Interesting perspective.

Kirk
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