[Elecraft] Elecraft Utilities

[Gary]

And the rub for me is, IF Elecraft did develop what is being asked for, what cost would they place on it, what ongoing costs are involved and who pays?
If this would add to their overhead, there will need to be a cost recovery mechanism and would this be passed on by way of a hardware price increase?
I don't want to see my future purchases increase in cost to cover "features" I am not likely to use in my lifetime.
Call me selfish if you like but I don't have a bottomless pit of money to spend on a hobby.
Just sayin....
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: "Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT" <KX3 at ColdRocksHotBrooms.com>
Sent: ‎9/‎04/‎2016 6:53 AM
To: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Utilities

On 4/8/2016 11:08 AM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> I see this as no different than a breeder of a thoroughbred breed of dog
> opening
> the pen and letting all comers mate with the females.  You would end up
> with a
> "contaminated" breed.
The utilities are not the same as the internal radio firmware.

To take your horse breeding analogy, it's like the type of feeder the 
horses are eating from.  They can be metal, or plastic, or rope netting, 
and it doesn't change how the horse runs.

The radio internals should not be open source.  The external utilities 
are a fair topic for discussion.

73 -- Lynn
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