[RTTY] [N1MMLoggerplus] RE: GRITTY

[Rudy Bakalov]

Is there anything that prevents commercial products from licensing GRITTY, 2Tone, and other RTTY decoders? There are two issues here:
1) The software developers have invested a lot of time and effort to create their own intellectual property. It is only fair for a commercial product to offer revenue sharing if the said product wants to use the decoders.
2) Free software = no expectation of support, paid software = expectation of support. Alex, David, and the other decoder developers may not be interested in getting themselves involved in supporting commercial products due to lack of time or whatever other personal reasons.
At the end of the day there are many practical and commercial considerations developers have to make. So if they don't want to support this or that product or create this or that feature, well, it is their choice.

Rudy N2WQ
      From: Rick Ruhl <ricker at w4pcsoftware.com>
 To: k9yc at arrl.net; N1MMLoggerplus at yahoogroups.com; "'Alex, VE3NEA'" <alshovk at dxatlas.com> 
Cc: 'RTTY Reflector' <rtty at contesting.com>
 Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:13 AM
 Subject: Re: [RTTY] [N1MMLoggerplus] RE: GRITTY
   
Well,  I guess free software shouldn't work with anything but homebrew
radios.  After all, there is commercial software in most radios sold in the
last 30 years.  Commercial kits with microcontrollers in them should also be
disqualified.  And then there are the commercial computers -  maybe only
Linux computers should be allowed to work with free software.  No commercial
operating systems allowed - sorry, Apple and Microsoft.  Also, straight keys
and bugs only - all commercial electronic keyers made today use software in
them and usually run under some software program in a computer.  Only
homebrew electronic keyers will be allowed.

Looks like we won't have contests anymore - the only ones who could qualify
are likely to be too busy building their homebrew radios and trying to find
paper tape for their Model15s so they won't need software for their brag
file. Oh yah, the homebrewers better not order any parts online - that uses
commercial software. I know Ron Stordahl is a ham but I bet he is not too
excited about having a swapfest to trade 813s and ARC-5s  for Digi-Key
parts.

Sigh

Rick - W4PC



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown [mailto:k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 12:37 AM
To: N1MMLoggerplus at yahoogroups.com; 'Rick Ruhl' <ricker at w4pcsoftware.com>;
'Alex, VE3NEA' <alshovk at dxatlas.com>
Cc: 'RTTY Reflector' <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [N1MMLoggerplus] RE: [RTTY] GRITTY

I agree.

73, Jim K9YC

On Sun,3/20/2016 9:25 PM, Rick Ellison rellison at twcny.rr.com
[N1MMLoggerplus] wrote:
> DM780 is commercial software.
> N1MM and N1MM+ and GRITTY and MMTTY and Fldigi and MMVARI are all free 
> software...
> It's my personal philosophy that commercial software should provide 
> for their own users.


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