I think I made a utterly wrong statement (so I triggered people) or topic got hot again by its own ways. When I checked answers there were just two comments. When I returned to write back I found many more comments to go through.
When I said “there is no cash in OH community” I meant that trying to convince OH users to pay for anything will be hard. After all, many of these ladies & guys are tough DIY folks who reverse engineered and published complicated protocols, made a lot of effort to get their home setups working properly and invested a lot of time to go through all aspects of making their home smart. Additionally even if myopenhab (seems) to be in maintenance mode, it does it job and most of users seems to be happy with it.
I don’t think there is a need to “argue” about that. I believe that such decision was made wisely and not by accident thus it has its rationale. I have no point to even start such topic, because I know nothing about german tax system beside it is super complicated.
I know this point and honestly, have no problem with that. Earlier point with “no cash” is coming from different angle. Most of OH users are not regular, or typical, consumers. They are driven by own thoughts so they decide to take vendor independent software for their houses.
I remember a post which I read at linkedin few weeks ago. Whole post was about Battle of England and planes which have been hit but found their way to land. Army commanders decided to employ engineers who would improve plane design to increase likelihood of return after hit. Tech guys quickly recorded places which been demaged by bullets. These places started to form patterns which been turned into hotspots. Engineers started to work on improvements on these “hotspots” - making shields there and offloading other places. One of guys who been involved in whole process opted to work on places which haven’t been hit, however his opinion was ignored. After a year when planes with new designs were flying it turned out that the one guy which voice been ignored was right.
The problem were not hotspots created from airplanes which have returned. Fatal hits were these which made whole machine crash and not come back in first place thus engineers should look after places which they haven’t found.
To reflect this story - maybe all topics which are turning to be so “hot” and controversial on forums, are not these which we should look for in first place? Above story shows also that even when there is plenty of data, it still might be interpreted in wrong way. I started a new topic to collect some data, so we will be able to talk about numbers and try to avoid mistakes made by other engineers long time ago: