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Free plans? Open source plans?
On Jan 29, 12:54*pm, wrote:
Wrong. There are lots of folks getting paid to work on open source software. I've occasionally even been one of them. I should clarify: most of the bad experience I've had with open source is a result of people NOT being paid to work on it. Therefore there is no motivation to create a really good product, generally. I have objections to copyleft. I have no objections to collaboration. I don't like bad software. I don't like software running aircraft. I'd prefer a live human being to make mistakes than a software program to run an airplane into the ground. Which has happened before and will happen again. As I said elsewhere, computers and software are tools for the Pilot and should be used accordingly. Either by themselves may have flaws that in combination could be eliminated. |
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Free plans? Open source plans?
As I said elsewhere, computers and software are tools for the Pilot and should be used accordingly. *Either by themselves may have flaws that in combination could be eliminated.- Fair to say. The space shuttle can't be landed without software. There are modern bombers/fighters that are apparently too difficult to control without software making minor corrections to flight inputs (I've read. I haven't flow, so I don't know but from heresay and magazine articles). My prejudice is working 10 years in software and seeing for myself how small flaws can be missed by even extraordinary testing regimes and not detected by even the best of developers. For experimental aircraft and small GA aircraft in particular I prefer cables and pulleys and turnbuckles to software activated electric motors. I wouldn't have thought that an offhand crude comment about open source software could have so thoroughly hijacked this thread. |
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Free plans? Open source plans?
On Jan 29, 8:21*pm, wrote:
As I said elsewhere, computers and software are tools for the Pilot and should be used accordingly. *Either by themselves may have flaws that in combination could be eliminated.- Fair to say. The space shuttle can't be landed without software. There are modern bombers/fighters that are apparently too difficult to control without software making minor corrections to flight inputs (I've read. I haven't flow, so I don't know but from heresay and magazine articles). My prejudice is working 10 years in software and seeing for myself how small flaws can be missed by even extraordinary testing regimes and not detected by even the best of developers. For experimental aircraft and small GA aircraft in particular I prefer cables and pulleys and turnbuckles to software activated electric motors. I wouldn't have thought that an offhand crude comment about open source software could have so thoroughly hijacked this thread. I have over 43 years of developing software and would consider myself among the best in my field but even I have been known to miss the occasional bug. BFG Software development and testing have come a long long way in the last 40 years but as long as man is doing the development, there will be things that we never anticipated. The beauty of open source, be it software or aviation is the combination of knowledge and forsight from multiple inputs. Those billion dollar military fighters that require software to make them controlable required the input of many developers and testers along with years of refinement. Even then, there will eventually come a combination of events that everybody thought to be impossible and the software will fail. Hopefully, there will be someone at the controls who despite the imperfections of man will find a way to overcome the problem. |
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