Free software is not popular at all among end users and it will probably never be as popular as closed software.
Instead, free software is incredibly popular and successful for enterprise users and companies. Right now, from the largest 8 software companies in the world, only one does not invest heavily into open source / free software. Even Microsoft is moving into becoming a large player in this area. If you go to Silicon Valley and ask around, I'd be surprised if there aren't 2-3 big companies using Codec2 internally for some project or research. There is at least one major radio manufacturer using FreeDV (Flexradio). The big trend right now in radio systems is for the users to plug in a black box (which is usually a digital transceiver based on chips like AD9361, AD9371, ADRV9008) and all DSP to be done in the cloud (with free software a major player here too). Since everything is done in the cloud, end users don't have to bother understanding free software and investing time into it. Everything is available to them as online information streams to consume. You're making a mistake trying to make FreeDV a major player on the amateur market competing with established products. It may already be, just not on the market you expect. Adrian On July 25, 2020 3:16:03 AM UTC, Brian Bartholomew via Freetel-codec2 <freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I think this is especially true when it comes to open source and >> community development. Squeezing into a tight performance envelope >> requires a lot of tedious optimization and the result is brittle and >> not easy to modify and experiment with because there isn't any room >> left. All that optimization may be unjustified if you're just going >> to throw out the design next year when the community comes up with >> something better. > >Ditto. > >Open source is what it is in part because people who are willing to >spend $10K every few years on a proprietary software system are not >willing to spend that on a less proprietary system whose source they >have available. > >Brian
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