[Elecraft] long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie

[Simon Brown (HB9DRV)]

The thread has ended up the way it did because I misunderstood Craig's 
original post - he is not anti freeware. We discussed this off-list and 
found we have a very great deal in common.

I am only pro Ham Radio freeware as Hams have a great ethos of helping each 
other - as this forum proves. I am not a fan of Linux even though it's free 
(must say fedora is rather good) and many of my customers use Linux.

Simon Brown
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Leber" <maggie at voicenet.com>


> NZ0R wrote :
>
>> """I'm not a long-haired, dope-smoking, free-software hippie so if I have 
>> to
>> spend some money for good software I don't mind. (As a professional
>> programmer I've never understood why the product of my hard work should 
>> be
>> free when I have to pay for the product of everyone else's work.)"""
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>
> Second Craig's recommendation. I've been a software professional myself as 
> long as
> you've been a ham (and you started when you were 12), and in my experience
> there's room for both free (as in either "free beer" *or* "free speech" or 
> both)
> and for-profit software in the the world.
>

[chop]