[TenTec] History repeats itself . . .

[k6jek]

It must have been annoying to Flex to spend so much money on software R&D only to have the fruits of their labor used to sell competitor's hardware.

Jon

On Nov 3, 2014, at 11:50 AM, HamOperator wrote:

> I understand Flex went proprietary with software development because previous versions sucked, and hams did not step up to improve it under the open license arrangement.    More often hams borrowed and adapted it to run other SDRs, instead.  One reliable source tells me Flex will spend as much as half its R&D time improving the software, and I think that is the key to its future success.
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> On 11/3/2014 10:09 AM, Barry N1EU wrote:
>> Agree with Rick and Ron.  I'm concerned whether the smaller radio
>> manufacturers can muster the programming resources for an SDR offering.
>> We're talking man years of development effort.  That's one reason Flex went
>> proprietary with the new 6K series.
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