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I'm happy to report that of course I sent in much more PRs and some even got accepted, but I highlighted one that didn't as an example of why it feels like a waste of time.

Similarly, I've had unpleasant experiences with entitled users more than once, I just picked the Heroku buildpack randomly.

As for the satellite tool, open tools will only take you so far. I do use GDAL, for example. But when you need to take photos on demand, you need very precise real-time trajectory and weather data, for which there is no free equivalent. Plus you actually need to send your photo request somewhere. And that's when you become dependent on an NDA-ed proprietary API.

There's good open source tools if you want to do offline analysis of static archive images. But not everyone has such relaxed requirements for refresh period and processing latency.

Consider using satellite photos to analyze traffic. You schedule photos with a proprietary API, use proprietary modules to download them, followed by proprietary file format converters. And then there's a block of image processing that I could open source, but that won't be helpful without the data acquisition and conversion pipeline. But actually it's a TensorFlow AI trained on proprietary data, so even releasing that is a legal nightmare. The whole project is commercially tainted from start to finish.