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Originally Posted by mswhin63
The only think that I am not happy is that the Developer of Ekos Indi is the same developer for for Stellarmate.
I get the feeling that Stellarmate may end up being the effort that will convert Indi to a non open source solution. In the meantime, one I get my hardware sorted I will revert back to Astroberry and continue.
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I don't have any concern like that. There are actually many developers for Kstars/Ekos/INDI (and I count myself as one) and we all have copies of the open source code. Even if the main github repository were removed, any one of those copies is publicly available with fully up to date version of the code. And that same code could be used as the basis for future versions. To be honest, I think the software is so extensive that it is beyond the ability of any single person to maintain and support it so to be viable it really needs to be open source.
What you are mainly buying with Stellarmate is the initial system setup and guaranteed support, rather than the code. Anyone could build a DIY Stellarmate equivalent and many do. But when you do that you rely on yourself and the community for support.