[johanstokking]

This is not entirely accurate. LoRa is a patented RF technology owned by Semtech. LoRaWAN is a standard maintained by the LoRa Alliance (which is not very different from other standards and marketing bodies). The Things Network (founded by @wienke and myself) is a developer community around LoRaWAN and a free to use cloud service intended for R&D and non-commercial use cases.

[jacquesm]

Yes, so GP is essentially correct.

[goodpoint]

Please don't astroturf a corporate driven "developer community"

> marketing bodies

There you go.

[wienke]

What is astroturf? If I Google it I see fake grass.

[avidiax]

A "grassroots" initiative comes from the people. "Astroturf" is commercial or political interests that masquerade as grassroots.