<story><title>Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator</title><url>https://www.jetnet.com/news/jetnet-acquires-ads-b-exchange.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Did their acquisition price factor in the % of people who will stop feeding because of this? It&amp;#x27;s one thing to feed a free open source project it&amp;#x27;s another to give free labor to Silversmith Capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>I mean, if I were providing one of these feeds, I&amp;#x27;d probably shut it down and look for (or create) a new community-driven alternative.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator</title><url>https://www.jetnet.com/news/jetnet-acquires-ads-b-exchange.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Did their acquisition price factor in the % of people who will stop feeding because of this? It&amp;#x27;s one thing to feed a free open source project it&amp;#x27;s another to give free labor to Silversmith Capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I might feel similarly, especially given my distaste for private equity. But in the AIS (ship tracking) space, commercial versions seem to do ok. MarineTraffic runs its own blatantly commercial effort. And AIShub.net is not commercial itself, but it is run by Astra Paging, which definitely is.&lt;p&gt;I run a receiver that feeds into both networks, and in both cases I look at it as a value-for-value exchange.</text></comment>