Good morning! I've been looking into buying one of the open source steno machines.
A concern someone brought up to me was that, for whatever reason, if the creator behind the firmware were to stop their involvement, and for whatever reason the only available open source firmware wouldn't work with, for example, a Windows update -- would I be up a creek without a paddle in that situation? If it's not obvious from my above description, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the tech side of all of this. It is an obvious disadvantage of open source software/firmware and I guess I'd be taking a risk with purchasing any of these machines (granted, at the range of prices I've seen, not really a huge issue). Is there a specific machine that's been around longer, maybe has a robust user base that might be able to contribute to firmware upgrades should something like this happen? Glad to have found this community and I'd be grateful for any help. :) L -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plover" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ploversteno/5c43289a-7e87-4233-b033-4cf0d87ac9bcn%40googlegroups.com.
