[Ham-Mac] LOTW and Macintosh

[KD5NWA]

A variation of Occums Razor describes the ARRL and their choice not to 
support the MAC platform.

"Don't attribute malice when simple stupidity will do"

I agree with you, any programmer worth his salt could write the software so 
it's either platform independent, or very close to it, so it would be not a 
major task to move it to another platform.

But I would suggest that, before everyone rushes out to destroy that 
organization, that there is a replacement ready and waiting to take over. I 
haven't noticed any other group out there who tries to look for our 
interest when other Corporations are perfectly willing to claim every 
frequency in existence for their exclusive use.

Stupidity is unfortunately isn't just limited to government, I meet it face 
to face five days a week, when I go to work.


But At 06:32 PM 5/18/2003, David Kelly wrote:
>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
>=====================================================================
>The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
>capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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