I must strongly disagree with Bob. Before I retired, most of my
career was spent writing code. This code became the property of
my employer, and when they went bankrupt, I could not access it,
support it, or use it. I never want to be in that situation again.
I will write open source code, but prefer to write public domain
code. My reward comes when people use my code for their own purposes.
I will also point out that much of the code that supports the
Internet is open source. For example: the Firefox browser, the
clang and gcc compilers, the apache web server, the openssl
encrypted transport layer suite, and the code that does basic
Internet routing. The Linux OS is open source. In amateur radio,
wsjt-x, cocoaModem, and N1MM are open source.
WE all benefit from open source software, and it exhibits the
amateur radio spirt of sharing.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 7/1/19 at 10:33 AM, [email protected] (Bob McGraw K4TAX) wrote:
No way would I write any computer code and make it open source.
Thus I say if you want something different, then learn to write
code. Oh, it only takes thousands of hours and many years
experience. And someone wants it for FREE!!!!!!
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