This is great news! It tears down another proprietary hook to allow other vendor marketing groups to begin considering DSTAR equipment implementations.
73's, Tim - N8DEU --- In [email protected], John Hays <j...@...> wrote: > > You know, all of the Linux network code is Open Source (thanks Fred), > it hasn't brought the Internet down. Please, Please, Please don't > let fear keep you from making your code open source, David. Starting > with good open source gateway/trust server code, from responsible > developers, will only lead to more application development and help D- > STAR, not hinder it. > > > On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Jay Maynard wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 07:48:47PM -0000, dlake02 wrote: > > > There is one problem will Open Source, and that is the possibility > > that > > > someone will change something that breaks things for everyone else. > > > > > > The effect there could be to close down all open source development. > > > > This is not a problem with open source development, nor is it a > > technical > > problem. It's an issue with a developer who does not understand the > > differnce between production and testing. The solution is to educate > > that > > developer. > > > > > I haven't decided whether I'm going to open-source or just generally > > > release my software yet - I haven't done anything like enough > > testing yet. > > > > Please do not let the actions of one developer who doesn't > > understand the > > difference between production and test get in the way of making your > > code > > open source. > > > > > So, I'll be following the standard software lifecycle of dev-test, > > > alpha/pre-production, production. > > > > Just like software should be done. > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John Hays > Amateur Radio: K7VE > j...@... >
