I don't consider it as taking a swipe, but rather providing information.
I've bought or influenced the purchase of 5 O2s (so far), but one of the things
that will no doubt force us to move to something else is the closed software.
IMHO, Closed software, like proprietary protocols, becomes less and less
interesting in Amateur Radio...
-Mike K3MC
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Grant Youngman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:20:04 -0500
> From: Grant Youngman <nq5t@tx.rr.com>
> To: tc@arrl.org
> Cc: orion@contesting.com,
> 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec@contesting.com>,
> orion565@yahoogroups.com, ab2kt@arrl.net
> Subject: [Orion] "Technical Correspondence", August 2007 issue
>
> When did the Technical Correspondence column become a personal outlet for
> marketing material??
>
> I don't care who's right or not (although the distinction drawn between what
> is SDR and what isn't is completely falacious), but this is truly bad form.
> Aggregeous. Is the next step a Ten-Tec rebuttal?
>
> I suggest that software authors or hardware developers or others who wish to
> take a swipe at someone elses product be compelled to buy "advertising"
> space to do so. I hope we don't see any more of this kind of thing
> permitted, from ANY vendor or developer of ANY product.
>
> Regards ... Grant/NQ5T
>
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