Open interfaces can be as effective as open source. Look at what PSKCORE
accomplished long before Moe AE4JY released it to open source. Mori-san
JE3HHT's MMTTY has also been effective as a "RTTY engine", and remains
"closed source" but provides programmatic access to its functionality.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on
Behalf Of Vojtech Bubnik
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:57 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: The next big thing - Using Swarm Intelligence
> On the other hand I use free community software such a DotNetNuke where
> community collaboration has really worked
I was a big proponent when I was a student. Now with more than 10 years in
the industry writing customer specific software I realize how unrealistic is
to want every piece of software to be free.
Open source is a good model for products, that target vast number of users,
so there will be large number of talented programmers in the target group
able to participate and there will be some among them willing to participate
and cooperate. If the target group is small like in the case of messaging
digital modes for HF, the development will be either commercial or one man
show at best as the reality has proven. And the target group for digital
messaging is vastly smaller than of contesting or casual rag chewing.
If Simon would release his DM780 source code (I know it is difficult because
he is using some 3rd party commercial libraries), I bet there will be couple
of programmers trying to tinker with it and probably there will be some
doing contributing minor improvements. The same applies for the fldigi as it
targets the second most HAM used operating system today. With pocketdigi I
cannot expect much contribution even if I provided source code, because its
target group is much smaller notwithstanding the fact, that the PDAs are
often replaced by the tiny cheap diskless PCs.
Actually, there seems to be a single contribution on the way for
PocketDigi - one French sailor is fine tuning Amtor / NavTex. So there will
be open source codec for flDigi and DM780, hi.
73, Vojtech
