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Re: [TenTec] Orion Repaired and Back to V1.373b5

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Repaired and Back to V1.373b5
From: Martin Ewing - AA6E <aa6e@ewing.homedns.org>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:12:01 -0500
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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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