The thread has ended up the way it did because I misunderstood Craig's
original post - he is not anti freeware. We discussed this off-list and
found we have a very great deal in common.
I am only pro Ham Radio freeware as Hams have a great ethos of helping each
other - as this forum proves. I am not a fan of Linux even though it's free
(must say fedora is rather good) and many of my customers use Linux.
Simon Brown
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Leber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
[chop]
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