DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months

Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by Eisenstein on Saturday September 09, 2023 @03:16PM (#37449255)

The problem is that the software is most likely not composed by them in any meaningful way. If you take apart any proprietary firmware and controlling application you are almost certain to find boilerplate code provided by the chipset vendors (protected by NDA) glued together with other code from other vendors with a GPL violating Linux backend.

Recent example: I patched in to my 3D printer's mainboard using a TTL to USB and opened up putty and guess what shows on the console?

> Linux version 3.4.39+ (zhanglei@ubuntu Revision:543)

* https://pastebin.com/CPB7RBdK

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Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months by dvdkon on Saturday September 09, 2023 @04:30PM (#37449978)

That's less of a problem for a hypothetical law requiring either longer-term maintenance or enabling users to perform that maintenance themselves. Manufacturers would just have to make adequate contractual arrangements.

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