On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Vic K2VCO wrote:
Thom LaCosta wrote:
And then when the driver doesn't install correctly, they will be asked to
help, even if the problem is caused by some kind of resource conflict,
spyware, or whatever.
And they won't when it happens with the adpater they supply?
This is possibly an argument for them *not* supplying an adapter and letting
it be the user's responsibility.
Reselling an adapter is a courtesy -- they've tested it, they know it talks
to the radio. The driver is the adapter manufacturer's responsibility. But
if this seems likely to lead to bad feelings or finger pointing, then they
should leave it up to the user to get an adapter if needed.
Hard for me to accept they would simply sell it as a courtesy....by selling it,
they are implying it works. I wouldn't do that, unless I had run a test with
a specific computer and specific OS.
I think it's a matter of Elecraft realizing that newer computers may not have a
serial port. I suspect their tests of the adpater lead them to the conclusion
that it would work in a high enough per centage of the times that they could
offer it.
I don't think any of can really say that they will and won't do, could and
should do, etc.
I think they were between a rock and a hard place ... they produce a radio that
uses a computer interface that is not readily available on most new
computers.
73 k3hrn
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