This thread really spiraled out in all sorts of directions!
Anyhow, I have developed both OSS and commercial software. All I will say is you don't have to look very far to find utter crap or really good stuff in both worlds.
Dave Marhous' - What's your objective? Do you want a library to do your own thing?
If so, it may be worth taking a stab at some of these. I have a little bit of experience with all of them, so if you have any questions, fire away!
- If you're interested in writing your own tracking app in C, check out xephem (OSS)
- If you're interested in doing some tracking-scripting, there's a python wrapper called PyEphem, it's great and also OSS. See a brief blog post I did on it: http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-is-my-satellite-in-python.html
- If you're interested in writing your own tracking app in JAVA, check out JSatTrack (OSS). Ganos library is very easy to use! I am using it in an Android app I am writing.
If you (or anyone else) has questions, feel free to fire them off. I hope this helps!
Joseph Armbruster KJ4JIO
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Michael Schulz mschulz@creative-chaos.comwrote:
On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Gary Joe Mayfield wrote:
What's so wrong with Simon making a buck as the result of his hard
work???
73, Joe kk0sd
Nothing, but that's not what the discussion is about ...
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