[Elecraft] Firmware development

[Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP]

On the other hand, Elecraft can't afford to expend resources on new 
features for products no longer in production. Professional development 
costs money, and there's no revenue stream from free firmware for 
products that are not for sale. It might even have a negative effect by 
influencing users of older gear to keep it instead of upgrading.

We are lucky that Elecraft fixes bugs in firmware for older products, 
and provides support for module upgrades. Some companies don't.

There really isn't a simple solution, except to buy a K4 and make 
suggestions for new features while it is still the top of the line!

Or, as I seem to be doing, follow Shimon Ben Zoma, who said, "Who is 
rich? He who appreciates what he has," in my case an upgraded K3.

73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
CWops no. 5
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
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On 27/11/2020 6:47, David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> "I can't think of one open source, community-based product that I'd want 
> to hang my hat on, even if I do see some that I'd support.   I just 
> don't see the professional depth in the general community."
> 
> Presumably you're talking about the amature radio community because 
> nonprofessional collaborative open source software development in 
> general is alive and very well, but even so how about N1MM+, or even 
> WSJT-X and derivatives?  I could probably come up with other examples if 
> I was willing to waste more time on it.
> 
> I think it would be insane of Elecraft to open up any of their products 
> to open source development simply because of the chaos it would create 
> for them trying to deal with users who busted their radios with buggy 
> software that they probably wouldn't even admit to, but I also think 
> your basic premise is flawed.
> 
> Dave   AB7E