I don't own an Orion, but the notion of open sourcing the firmware would
be amazing.. I suspect they won't do this for multiple reasons though.
Jeff
Duane Calvin wrote:
> 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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