No or not much collaboration in the ham software world Simon. If hams who write software would collaborate more, I think you would see more and better applications for MS and Linux.
Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Brown Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Movement toward open digital software? ----- Original Message ----- From: "kd4e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The only thing that stands between Linux and the > common user today is friends-of-MS who refuse to > make drivers (or driver info) available for Linux > and programmers who are inadequately competent > to make their apps cross-platform compatible. > I don't agree - most Ham software is written by one man and his dog. Speaking for myself, were I to give up the day job I would not have enough time to provide properly packaged and supported multi-platform software. Any idiot can write a program, it's the support which makes the difference and this eats up the time. Simon Brown, HB9DRV Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links
