[Ham-Mac] ARRL discrimination, part 2

Sat, 17 May 2003 19:04:41 -0700

ARRL will indefeniely continue o discriminate Mac users, unless we'll 
have devoted Mac fans in its board of directors. They support Linux 
only because there is a group of hams that aggressively develops ham 
radio linux software. If you'll look in QEX at the bunch of articles 
about software radios, they don't even mention that Mac exists, even 
though G4 processor is probably the best general purporse processor for 
DSP. Anyway they say that Apple's market share is less than 5%. I would 
venture to say that among hams it is less than 1%. It is not 
economically feasible for ARRL to provide support for such a small 
group, unless someone will start providing them with free software for 
MacOSX as Linux group does.

73 de Sergei KD6CJI

On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 09:44 US/Pacific, Steve Muncy wrote:

> I've added the following to the top of the Hams and X web page:
>
> Concerned that the ARRL does not support Macintosh in the software  
> they provide? Then write the League and  tell them you are a Mac user 
> and don't want to be discriminated against ! Send email to:
>
>      David Sumner K1ZZ (ARRL CEO)
>     Jim Haynie W5JBP (President/Chair of Board)
>
>
>
> Mailto Links are provided for Sumner and Haynie. The Hams and X web 
> page is located at:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/smuncy/hamradio/HamsAndX.html
>
> Perhaps  this will encourage  a few more people to express their 
> opinion that the ARRL should not discriminate.
>
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