On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tim Salo wrote:
> We should all applaud those who make their object code, source code,
> protocol specifications, and/or documentation freely available. But,
> we shouldn't feel we have a right to insist that everyone ought to
> make their intellectual property freely available.
>
Anyway I'm still free to prefer open source software, and to try to
convince other hams that open source is better, isn't it?
[Reply to other emails]
Anyway a protocol without specification available is a bad thing, simply
because if you have a balky system you can't find where is the problem
sniffing what happens on the network, if is misconfiguration, a bug,
an hardware failure or whatever. And, if you aren't microsoft is anyway
very hard to make your closed protocol succesful.
Ships stills use SITOR, guess why?
Mike
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