[Elecraft] K3 bugs

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Alan <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:

> On the other hand, human drivers are hardly perfect either.  Perhaps the
> buggy software will be more reliable than an inattentive driver...


Maybe it will...  The conversation gets intelligent when the principal
concepts are seen for what they really are, doesn't it.

The trick will be to beta test (on the real road) and fix, beta test and
fix, beta test and fix. But they won't get me in one unless I'm sitting in
the driver's seat with instant override. I haven't gotten to letting the
Ford parallel park itself. Just can't go there. 40+ years in software
development has left me with scars.

The thing with Elecraft is that the management decided to harvest customer
experience. As a result we have years of customer-driven fixes and
improvements, some of it not found anywhere else. SAS Institute used that
philosophy to drive a 1970's statistical system into the largest privately
owned software company in the world, a 4 billion a year world-wide business
based on uber-statistics, that is the BMW, Mercedes and Cadillac of its
niche. Customers told SAS what the next thing needed to be, and SAS
listened to them.  Elecraft is in some pretty heady company by my reckoning.

73, Guy.