On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:51:22PM +0000, James R. Saker Jr. wrote:
> Incidentally, I have to believe that the Linux hams have the most to offer
> the future of amateur radio -- the spirit of the open source community and
> its accomplishments could make a dramatic impact on the amateur world.
Unfortunately, there's plenty of opposition to open source amongst
amateurs it seens. There's been some threads about it recently on
the APRS mailing list and the AMSAT mailing list. I've been pushing
the open source line pretty hard on the APRS list.
When I wrote to say that the long-term future of APRS was open
source, one troll even wrote back to say that if that's true
we're better off without it!
I'm astonished that so many hams will post full descriptions of their
radio circuits in QST and the like, but so may others won't share their
software.
73
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
