On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 04:50:33PM -0500, Steve Dimse K4HG wrote:
> Well, first of all, Bob's code is in QuickBasic, not C. I've seen parts
> of it, it is not clean code. It would take you twice as long to figure it
> out as to start from scratch. Second, the hard part of an APRS program is
That's cool. I can code from scratch -- can we have the full protocol
documentation?
> But tell me, when you go to the store, and they make you pay $6.00 a
> pound for steak, do you start whining that it isn't free? Do you complain
> that they won't let you in the back to cut it yourself? Just like the
> butcher, Bob has every right to sell his wares.
There's no per-unit cost in distributing software for free on the internet.
There is per-unit cost in selling a steak.
Hamish
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