BTW guys, if you have the technical skill to do so, I'd recommend setting up a virtual machine to test any questionable material out in. Virtualbox is one free VM, qemu is another. Virtualbox is a lot easier to transfer files into. You can set aside a file for a virtual hard drive, install a different OS or another copy of the same one you're running now on it and have everything sandboxed in. I have a few Linux and Windows virtual machines set up on my computer expressly for this purpose. (One Windows XP virtual machine is exclusively for backwards compatibility support. I have a very nice, expensive HP scanner with an automatic document feeder on it that HP has told me they never intend to release Windows 7 drivers for. Virtualbox has support for USB devices. I have the drivers installed in a Windows XP virtual machine. Scanner still works perfectly on XP!)
Of course you need licenses. I just happen to have the good fortune to have a few old trash systems I got for cheap with the XP license stickers still attached. I'm not going to go all tin-foil hat over this ROS guys' motives but I will say that I don't think we should trust that he's motivated by goodwill. I'm not accusing, only stating common sense. We're not alone http://www.slate.com/id/2259417. On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:07 AM, af6it <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why is it we're still even discussing this? The mode is questionable, the > quirks are many, the value is dubious, the author a non-ham with a BIG > attitude, and he controls our computers. (Not mine, glad I never got around > to downloading) Why should we be his pawns and feed his ego? Best thing we > could do is simple end the debate, change the subject, and allow ROS to die > its deserved death by neglect. It didn't have to go that way, but it is what > it became by choice of the one who engineered it. Laurie & several others > critiques seem quite valid. So why the ongoing debate? Let it end here & > now! > > Just my cent worth. > > Stu AF6IT --now SK on the subject > > > --- In [email protected] <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Laurie, VK3AMA" <group...@...> wrote: > > > > With this action (or inaction) from Mr ROS and considering all of his > > past actions/comments it becomes clear (to me) that he has an agenda and > > Hams are being used as beta-testers to help fulfil his ultimate goal. > > > > He has shown several times an unwillingness to embrace "Ham Spirit" and > > "Ham Operating Standards". > > > > His Agenda? I suspect it is commercial in nature. > > > > My thoughts. > > > > de Laurie, VK3AMA > > > > > > > > >
