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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by mike_d on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:34PM (#34523047)
I helped out a bit with ADSBExchange. The all volunteer staff were completely blindsided by this. The founder just took a payday and ran.

For what it is worth, I don't actually know what the PE company bought. I guess the historical data and a rack full of servers - but the staff, community, and service are moving elsewhere.

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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by nocoiner on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:19PM (#34523607)
One would think there would be recent lessons to be learned on how to vaporize value in connection with an asset-light acquisition… Actually, the guy who sold probably did learn those lessons. Best of luck to the buyer, I suppose.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by totoglazer on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:25PM (#34523679)
Where to?
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by dx034 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:03PM (#34524153)
Opensky seems to be the only non profit network left?
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by fires on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:38AM (#34531447)
It's the only one that was always a non-profit by the way - the fact that ADSBX was an LLC should have been a giveaway, also to the employees/volunteers.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by KirillPanov on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:28PM (#34524451)
This would be a great use for nostr.

Instead of everybody uploading their data to one dude who can sell out, instead flood-fill it. We're not talking about a lot of data here.

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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by mike_d on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:01PM (#34524763)
> We're not talking about a lot of data here

It is actually a massive amount of data. Gigabits per second that need to be aggregated, sorted by geographic region, fed into multilateration systems, and cleaning the output before it can be shown on a map.

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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by tpmx on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#34523695)
The founder is Dan Streufert. (From the linked press release.)
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by wkat4242 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:17PM (#34524936)
Really good to know!! I'll join them.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by 0x457 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:04PM (#34525419)
Can't blame the founder, though. I would have done the same.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by kuschku on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:59PM (#34525974)
Sounds just like freenode 2.0. Some investor buying the domain, and everyone else just moving on to a new project.
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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by account42 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:25AM (#34531325)
I think the Freenode takeover could have worked without loosing the majority of the channels if rasengan hadn't tried so hard to kill the network. After all, Freenode was a free service people were making use of and as long as it was run somewhat competently most wouldn't have cared too much about operator drama.

Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity.

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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by Kye on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:27AM (#34531354)
>> "Here it feels more like people are providing unpaid work (by running receivers) and who in their right mind would continue doing that for a commercial entity."

Most people with a smartphone. I do enjoy more precise GPS even if it means Apple and Google are soaking up Wi-fi hotspot info to improve triangulation. I think the difference is most people don't realize they're feeding this info to companies.

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Re:Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggr... by gkbrk on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:04PM (#34534564)
You can run Tower Collector and feed that data to Mozilla and OpenCellID instead.
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