Forgot to rant about this

Last week, now they are using sock puppet accounts to try and make people look bad.  This is someone impersonating me on reddit:

"peabody124" in this case is not me.  Just someone with too much spare time trying to be a troll. I don't know who it is although phrases like "class A manipulator" sound like someone I know who matches a similar description.  The account was coincidentally created around the time PP started doing well, too.   These people are embarrassing themselves.  Then you have some (the same?) guy registering phoenixpilot.org and setting the whois page to "James is a dick, ave" and some new vitriol now.

Seriously, I guess those who can't create anything themselves just feel the need to try and knock down others who can.  However, the good news is Phoenix is making great progress and extremely active.  We have a great team going and now the F3 port and Freedom and both working well.  I think Quanton should be out early next year too which is looking really promising.

And it gets worse

So after being banned from IRC it gets even better.  Now my account and Kenn's account at OP have been hijacked.  I haven't had access since yesterday and suddenly I'm online:

Wow.  This new leadership really has zero integrity.

Oh OpenPilot. It's sad to watch you collapse.

Oh classic:  http://forums.openpilot.org/topic/14537-geofencing/page__st__20#entry153125

This was my favorite:

LOL.  Most of the devs have already left and we are definitely implementing our own ideas, but heck - Dave is even claiming he came up with "PhoenixPilot" and probably the idea of putting your pants on one leg at a time.  Coincidentally the domain phoenixpilot.org disappeared last week :).  And of this demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what the GPL means - there is nothing about it which requires one to actively push changes back upstream and all our work is published without any private repos.  The hypocrisy of that after being "strongly encouraged" to work in a private repo for the last year is astounding.  And of course the idea we are forking for commercial purposes instead of just to avoid the bullshit.  It's 99% likely Freedom will be CC-BY-SA unless we go try and go through Sparkfun or something.

While everyone else is trying to get work done, Dave of course wants to make things political and his hoard of drones starts talking shit.  The best part of it was Kenn had planned to make sure his work to merge it went upstream to OP since Dwillis doesn't know about all the drama in the background and doesn't deserve to have his work marginalized.  We predicted any response would lead to thread closure and sure enough...  Plus he was even pushing other miscellaneous fixes to the OP repo last week, but the facts interfere with the story so they should be ignored.

Meanwhile people are getting banned on IRC in the #openpilot channel, including all of BU and randomly George Tech (cause I guess, fuck them?).

Oh drama.  It's nice to be free of it.

On the up side we have a few more developers working with us now and things are really starting to roll.  Lots of cleanup on the ground and flight side and we should have quite a few boards integrated into the tree shortly.  Also, all the changes for Freedom have been tested and the next revision should be really slick.  The nav improvements and refactoring are coming along really well and I think there is a fair chance we can get that code running on both CC3D and Freedom as well as another board that will be entering the mix (more on that later).