Hello Hamish, hello all,
> 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.
Just my experience, too. And even worse: those people get
_really_ angry about someone complaining about that! Just be
warned: Chances are that some fellow on this list will
misunderstand your message and interpret it as an attempt to start
a flamewar :-/
Guess we have to live with the fact that some people who are
programmers and radio amateurs in one person just do not like to
have their software being an open secret to everyone. Only
solution: writing own programs...
Cheers, 73
Gerd
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Gerd Roethig
Universit�t Leipzig, Medizinische Klinik u. PK I
Johannisallee 32, 04103 Leipzig
Tel. (0341) 97 12622, Fax (0341) 97 12515
