[TenTec] Orion Repaired and Back to V1.373b5

[Duane Calvin]

There were a couple others of us who suggested this same thing.

	73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Martin Ewing - AA6E
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:12 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Repaired and Back to V1.373b5

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
...
> 
> One thing TT could do to make the situation better is to license the
> code to third party developers, or better yet, make it available to all
> under some open source license.
> 
> Mark
> 

It may go against ham culture, but I suggested (long ago) that TT should 
sell a support contract for Orion firmware (and maybe hardware).  That 
would help keep the development wheels turning.  To me, it would be 
worth $100 a year to get real progress. Of course, there would be 
problems running such a program - how do you prevent freeloading, etc.

An open source (community-based) support process would be even better, 
but that does not seem to be part of the TT philosophy.  Some of their 
competitors are doing better on this.

73 Martin AA6E
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