I had always thought that the best thing would have
been for someone like HAL to do a royalty-based license
of RITTY and do an embedded implementation of it
in a DSP modem.
That way, "you no buy modem, you no get to use RITTY."
Brian gets his cut, modem manufacturer gets his cut. And
those who don't want to pay to play RTTY can go use
MMTTY.
Also, there is also no hardware compatibility headache
as to what sound card works and what does not.
It could even be a proprietary piece of hardware "head"
for a soft modem, e.g., some special high dynamic range
converter with PTT and tuning meter. Then do a special
RITTY which only talks to this relatively inexpensive head.
Again, futile for a thief to steal the software since it is useless
unless you have paid for the hardware/software bundle.
Just my two bytes.
73
Chen, W7AY
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