[Elecraft] K2 Control software

[Tom Zeltwanger]

Gary,

What a shame. I think you are missing an opportunity, but I certainly 
understand your decision, and it IS your intellectual property. 

I think the chance that someone would clone the hardware design is small, and 
if they wanted to, that could be done now, and I'm sure software could be 
written to control it.

If you released some software under something like the GPL used by the open 
source software community, nobody else could do anything that they did not have 
to disclose.

Thanks for a great product. I'm still building mine, but already thinking about 
what interesting things I can do with it, other than the obvious.

73,

Tom KG3V


Quoting Gary Hvizdak <garyhvizdak at cfl.rr.com>:

> On Feb 8, 2007 Tom wrote ...
> 
> Can we get access to the software that runs the controller and menus, so if
> we wanted different menu/switch functionality, it could be changed?
> 
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> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
>     The K2 firmware is proprietary and is so carefully protected that not
> even the object code is disclosed.  Yes, having access to the object code
> would make it possible for users to upgrade their firmware electronically,
> rather than having to purchase replacement MCUs.  However, it would also
> make it very easy to clone the K2, thereby stealing the design plans for
> the K2's hardware and software, which are Elecraft's intellectual property.
> 
> 73,
> Gary
> KI4GGX
> 
>