On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Paul Shaffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > FlexRadio Systems was born of open source software... > > Hello, I have not read any of the replies to this entry, > and I may 180 out of phase with the other customers... > I'm a little bit negative towards the thrust of your post. > I have an sdr-1000 and at this point don't plan on buying > any more Flex radio products. The obsolescence of the > sdr-1000 has not been handled in a very graceful manner > in my opinion and my programming bugs and suggestions have been > ignored. Well, the SDR-1000 was supplanted by the Flex 5000 several years ago. Still, the software upgrades continue to support the SDR-1000 and if your SDR-1000 breaks it appears that Flex will still fix it for you. That seems pretty reasonable for a legacy product. I bet they continue to support it for 5 years after its replacement hit the streets. That seems eminently fair to me. That is at least as good as the other radio manufacturers. But I can see it from Flex's side of things too. They derive no revenue from the SDR-1000 anymore and they are a small company. Supporting the SDR-1000 is a total loss for them. And I can see them not spending time on software enhancements for the SDR-1000 for the same reason. But it does seem that I have seen bug fixes and enhancements in the two years or so I have been hanging out here. It is not as if you have been left hanging in the wind. Now it might not be the full support that the Flex xxxx owners are getting but it far and away better than nothing. > I never got any support for the product through > the official email channel, but only on the reflector. > Don't you think that is kind of a moot point? Dudley and the rest do support for all the radios on the reflector. I have seen Dudley, Tim, Gerald, Steve, Eric, and even Bob answering people's questions. Sure sounds like official support to me. And if it gets too fiddly they usually say call them or they will call. > Since I'm a programmer, in future I plan to challenge you > as per the open source GPL provisions on the licenses. > I was just watching the email exchange on the topic and it appears that Flex is going to maintain the SVN repository available for now and make source available on all the GPL-licensed bits on an as-request basis. That seems to fit within the letter of the license terms. > I hate that this is turning into an almost adversarial > confrontation with a corporation. > It sure looks to me like you are the one turning it adversarial. I understand your frustration if you are a hard-core, open-software person, but I don't get the feeling that Flex has totally abandoned the SDR-1000 population, nor does it appear that they are going to bypass the letter of GPL. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.931.492.6776 (USA) (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
