[Ham-Mac] LOTW and Macintosh

[ham-mac@mailman.qth.net]

Couple things, my first post, as a Windows author moving my code to the mac 
for hams.

1. They wrote the end user programs with wxWindows, but Jon and the bunch at 
the league are VERY linux based. And, from what I see, not very experienced 
coders.  So yes, they could port it over, but they were begging a while back 
for some Windows developer to port their Linux code to Windows for the 
development community, for FREE!  (Yes, they are being paid to code LOTW, but 
expect the ham developers to give away their time and resources.).

2. It's not just mac people they are ignoring. It's the developers too.They 
slapped me (when I was doing Log Windows), Paul (DX4Win), Jack (Dxbase), 
Dennis (Logic 5) and Tom (LogEqf), when we wanted to be involved with the 
initial design of LOTW.  Their NIH syndrome was really pissing the 5 of us 
off, and Paul can tell you how insulting it was dealing with them, as I can 
I. (The answer from them was, well you all can just write a new parse for OUR 
format, rather than use ADIF). NIH is in full swing at ARRL HQ.

And as an experienced developer, I can tell you, much of my TNC code will 
port right over to the mac, just the user interface code will be written from 
scratch.

Rick - W4PC
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In a message dated 5/17/2003 9:24:09 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ald@frantic.org writes:

> Simply put, as long as a Linux version exists, the amount of work required 
> to port it to OS X would be minimal. wxWindows already exists for the Mac, 
> so the only possible things preventing the ARRL from offering a Mac version 
> are laziness, cheapness and/or plain old platform bigotry. My guess is it's 
> the latter, since the number of Linux users out there is no more than the 
> number of Mac users, and the ARRL wasn't too lazy or cheap to cater to that 
> tiny market.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 



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