There were a couple others of us who suggested this same thing.
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Martin Ewing - AA6E
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:12 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Repaired and Back to V1.373b5
Mark Erbaugh wrote:
...
>
> One thing TT could do to make the situation better is to license the
> code to third party developers, or better yet, make it available to all
> under some open source license.
>
> Mark
>
It may go against ham culture, but I suggested (long ago) that TT should
sell a support contract for Orion firmware (and maybe hardware). That
would help keep the development wheels turning. To me, it would be
worth $100 a year to get real progress. Of course, there would be
problems running such a program - how do you prevent freeloading, etc.
An open source (community-based) support process would be even better,
but that does not seem to be part of the TT philosophy. Some of their
competitors are doing better on this.
73 Martin AA6E
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