[Ham-Mac] LOTW and Macintosh

Sun, 18 May 2003 11:16:23 +0200

Hello,
It all comes down to 1 single point: The ARRL thinks that it has the
(mono)pole-position. And they have in a certain way. The worse is it that
they "mis-use" this position!!!!! ARRL, shame on you.
Tub (PA1TUB) 

> Van: [email protected]
> Beantwoord: [email protected]
> Datum: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:41:28 EDT
> Aan: [email protected]
> Onderwerp: Re: [Ham-Mac] LOTW and Macintosh
> 
> 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,
> [email protected] 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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