[RTTY] Looking for an interface - a few simple requirements

[Peter Laws]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Phil Sussman <psussman at pactor.com> wrote:


> The advent of soundcards was an technological advance, but in which
> direction?

Talk to Chen and he'll explain it to you.  :-)


> Chen is right! Open sourcing multiplies problems and can degrade the overall
> public perception of the product itself.

Not true.  You can take open source code and, depending on the
license, redistribute a modifed-yet-crappy version, but those are
caught quickly (and, in many cases, ridiculed :-).  If you contribute
code to the main project, your code isn't likely to make it into the
tree without scrutiny.

To my knowledge, the MMTTY source has not been forked and I am not
even aware of a new release using contributed code, but I certainly
look forward to it.  At least one of the gate keepers to the source is
here and can speak to that if he wants.

As for PacTOR, I didn't think they had open-source anything.  They may
have licensed their OTA protocol, but that's not exactly the same
thing.


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