2017-10-11, 11:24 AM
(2017-10-10, 08:37 PM)Pytheas Wrote: I have complete confidence in Maitai, QtVlm main developer. He and his team have done a world-class job, already offered free to a huge sailing community. They have been active and responsive on US and French forums, instantly correcting bugs a soon as reported, and tirelessly answering querries from non-geek users.
So mine is a hearty YES...
Why Maitai comes not here inside the Forum and explains the advantages of his wish of integration? There are also the possibilities that its integrate from scratch or to make it easy to integrate it if the user wish and need it. He also can explain best their decition to use a cosed source api... maybee from this point of view its better to choose other projects that are more close to their philisophy. maybee they can focus first their energy to develope a api that works the same and is opensource... that can be a good start...
See in direct response... its no question someone is beautiful and nice or have good manners and put energy inside their work.I would not like to see in the news the headline that openplotter give up their opensource policy and integrate tools in their base opensource is not able in time to develope such by themselve.
In fact the questions is only to stay with open source or to leave that way.... in fact in earlier times drivers for wifi in linux also was not open source and there was allways a possibility to implement the proprietary drivers to get it run. Meanwhile drivers are build and made by opensource developers. and the routers perform better.
In 5GHz the companies close again their sources and in fact the community in Openwrt let their fingers away from this. I think with a no we have the better chance that with time we get better solutions opensourced. Not now maybee but in future...
Additional (ok i am not a sailor) big parts you can manage without any software. Shure i have my advantages with mbtiles charts because for me personal they make realy sense and opencpn do not support them. But i still say no. to non opensource integration... for me its so that the official enc charts are not enough and its better for me to use mbtiles for rivers in europe.
My argument is now. Why start since years a developement and improve it step by step and integrate opensource that its now necessary to run and start to integrate proprietary solutions that are closed source...