----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Rairdin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[chop]
I'm not a long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie so if I have to
spend some money for good software I don't mind. (As a professional
programmer I've never understood why the product of my hard work should be
free when I have to pay for the product of everyone else's work.)
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Would you send someone an invoice if you were to spend an afternoon helping
them put up antennas?
One of the great things about software is that it is written once, installed
a thousand times. As a provider of free software I enjoy putting something
back into the hobby, goodness knows I took enough out while starting off in
1973/1974.
If Amateur Radio is to survive (which I am sure it will) and move forward
good software is essential, just look at the SDR products. The cost of good
software is too much for a small hardware company, so to get off the ground
open source or at least freeware is maybe the only option.
My two centimes anyway...
I am a sort-haired, dog-walking software engineer :-)
Simon Brown
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