[Ham-Mac] LOTW and Macintosh

[David Kelly]

On Sunday 18 May 2003 04:16 am, Roland Turba wrote:
> 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)

I don't see how the ARRL is behaving any different than any other 
government or monopoly.

Public education lowers everyone to the least common denominator rather 
than have a few schools excel.

Public highways have given everyone potholes as government knows how to 
get the roads built but doesn't have a long enough attention span to 
keep them in repair. Or to track which builders built roads which last.

So I'm not at all surprised when an organization such as the ARRL 
reverts to the least common denominator and makes the worst possible 
exclusive selection such as Windows. And not knowing for sure what they 
coded in my bet is Visual Basic. Mind numbing, non-portable, and 
difficult to maintain.

The solution is to not support such organizations so that they no longer 
have the power to hurt you or others. In one way we already are doing 
this. We choose Macintosh.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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