NZ0R wrote : > """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.)""" > > Any recommendations?
Second Craig's recommendation. I've been a software professional myself as long as you've been a ham (and you started when you were 12), and in my experience there's room for both free (as in either "free beer" *or* "free speech" or both) and for-profit software in the the world. I've used free code that was of excellent quality. I've also encountered allegedly "professional" programming that was utter garbage. And while I use free tools quite a bit, I just spent $500 for a Java development environment because it will help me do a better job than the equivalant free products, some of which are quite good. I suppose it would be nice if the quality of software could be judged soley on its price. But Elecraft owners know that rule doesn't apply to radios either. Deprecating comments about free-software advocates associate you with the likes of the scoundrels at SCO. Consider that it does not do you credit. 73 de Maggie Leber K3XS Elecraft K2 s/n 1641 Editor, the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club "Blurb" -- -----/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress / ----/(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/ ---/ / | / | _ _ _ ` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to / --/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/ -/ (_/ ' .-/ .-/ ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/ /________________(_/_(_/_______AMSAT 32844_/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
