[Elecraft] ANN: KComm 1.1 released [OT]

[David Woolley (E.L)]

G4ILO wrote:

> You can't be serious, Brendan! The main reason Linux is not more popular
> than it could be is that too much scarce volunteer effort is wasted doing
> work similar to what has already been done by someone else. So you have 100

This is even more of a problem in the traditional commercial software 
model; in fact much of the software developed never goes into service at 
all.  There is an apparent exception for really mass market products, 
but that is because Microsoft buy out the most successful product and 
create an effective monopoly (I think the EU has ruled that there is a 
legal monopoly in some cases).

At least with open source you can see the competition early, and not 
develop a complete product only to throw it away because your competitor 
beat you to market. You can also learn from internal techniques, not 
just surface appearence, and, in some cases, use each others code (some 
licences are incompatible).

The amateur radio related topic, which makes this thread on topic for 
the list, is amateur radio logging software.


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