[Elecraft] P3SVGA

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Well, you just described my day job. We sell hardware (Ethernet
controllers) and the driver I support is open sourced Linux and FreeBSD.
There are also closed-source versions but I only do backup-support on
those.

Yes, it would require more support on Elecraft's end but it wouldn't be
impossible to manage, just hard. There's a lot of repeating, "If you
can't reproduce it on the official X version driver, then you're on your
own." But then again there are a lot of bug fixes that other people can
do for you.

I don't blame them for not doing it, but I'm still on the "It would be
nice" side of this.

Oe Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Chester Alderman wrote:

> To me that is just a silly expectation for ANY ham radio manufacturer to
> consider. Can you just imagine what a quagmire Elecraft would generate if
> they open-sourced their firmware? They would have to stop producing
> profitable products just to spend time trying to pull software 'expurts' out
> of the trouble they themselves generated.
>
> And once the 'community' turned the firmware into total trash, then you
> would expect Elecraft to bail you out????

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