> -free software. Personally, I prefer free stuff because, as t
> Linus said "software is like sex, it's better when it's free"
I like free stuff, too. Wonder if it's worth making that argument to my
Mercedes dealer and see if I can get one for free.
> wolonteers who develops software for fun.
I've had the misfortune of downloading and trying to use a variety of "free"
and "for fun" software. "Open source" doesn't equate to free. Red Hat's
Linux Enterprise is technically "open source". Last time I looked, it
wasn't free. You still get largely what you pay for. There are exceptions
to everything, of course.
> much faster one, you have to buy whole rig, Orion II for
> example. This is some kind of customer lock-in, I should say.
An SDR (at least as of this writing) still has a substantial component of
proprietary hardware associated with it. You can't ignore that. You can't
plug an antenna directly into your "soundcard" yet, either. No free lunch
anywhere.
Grant/NQ5T
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