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posted by LaminatorX on Friday October 31 2014, @04:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-Code-to-rule-them-all dept.

Drones have just found their new best friends: coders. On Oct. 13, the Linux Foundation unveiled a nonprofit organization called the Dronecode Project ( https://www.dronecode.org ), an open-source development initiative uniting thousands of coders for the purpose of building an aerial operating system for drones. Hopeful that the project will bring order to the chaos that has surrounded software developers as they sprint to carve out a share of the bourgeoning market for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), UAS operators are now asking whether Dronecode will finally provide the horsepower and industry-wide support needed to launch a universal drone operating system.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2841493/one-code-to-rule-them-all-dronecode.html

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @08:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @08:25AM (#111807)

    Developing the kind of reliable, can't fail systems required for aviation - especially unmanned - is not something that the average open-source keener can handle. It takes a whole new level of code development - "oh look, it's K&R so it must be OK" just doesn't cut it.

    An open source project like this might be OK for a toy "drone" but not for anything serious.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @12:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @12:20PM (#111846)

    No, can't fail system is needed for a manned aircraft. Unmanned is not as demanding. Secondly, you don't even know what kind of people are contributing to this, so how can you go and judge this as a toy immediately?

  • (Score: 1) by lizardloop on Friday October 31 2014, @01:15PM

    by lizardloop (4716) on Friday October 31 2014, @01:15PM (#111880) Journal

    Are you saying that any open source project is only fit for a toy? If you are then you'd better tell all the people running BSD and Linux kernels to stop doing anything "serious".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @05:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2014, @05:11PM (#111952)

      I have been running *nix servers for years in a web farm and don't know anything about this supposed reliability you seem to think exists. What I do know about is a constant stream of bug fixes that I have to apply regularly and a bunch of problems that are always requiring fixes.

      • (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday October 31 2014, @06:55PM

        by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 31 2014, @06:55PM (#111998)

        Please share your biggest issue with us. My bet is on a userland application that is owned by a company that has a paid-for support option.

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      • (Score: 1) by riondluz on Monday November 03 2014, @02:14AM

        by riondluz (1444) on Monday November 03 2014, @02:14AM (#112522) Homepage

        then you're not doing it right

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