[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] Discussion on ROS to ROS2 transition plan

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[quote="Dejan_Pangercic, post:33, topic:6155"]
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All your points are spot on.  As a commercial company just joining the "ROS" wave, we see absolutely no reason to do anything with ROS1.  ROS2 on the other hand is very attractive for many of the reason that you point out.

FWI, I can't speak for other commercial companies, but if we do what we think we are going todo, we are likely to spend about $1B on robot software development over the next 10 years.  $0 will go to ROS1.  Much of it is likely to go towards ROS2 functionality.  That's not immoral, its just good business.  We don't see ROS1 as a "commercially" viable technology base, at least not for our markets (which are personal defense and security robots.)  

If ROS2 weren't a thing, we'd likely spend our money on enhancing our own proprietary system and then releasing as much of it as we can as open source code.

I don't believe that we are alone.  ROS2 can become the foundation of machines serving a wide variety of commercial market segments that are each worth 10's of billions of dollars.  As a result, if the community can provide the courage, vision and know how to lead, then large sums of investment are likely to flow into ROS2 over the next couple of years.





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