On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 23:12 +0000, Woodrick, Ed wrote: > > And indeed, back to my initial statement. It’s pretty obvious how hard > it is to reach any consensus and how many different opinions that > exist. > >
It is much better having a community effort behind Open D-Star than just allowing one person or one corporation doing it. Already some great ideas have been passed around. When programming or creating something if one person makes all the decisions you may end up with some bad solutions. It is not that persons fault. When a team comes together and discusses ideas there may be reasons that design X created by person A has flaws that person A was not able to realize until told by the others. Eventually what happens is that the cream will rise and all the poor ideas never get implemented. There are those that think they are the only ones that know the right way and then there are those that know with a great team they'll be able to go the right way. It may be a little bit more work but I would always chose a team of programmers over one guy in a cubicle. The team can learn from each others past mistakes and create something nice. I've been a lone programmer for the company that I started for 10 years now. I've hired consultants to take some of the work load off of me while I did more people related activities like work shows, pre-sales support, and training. Now I have about 3 consultants that work for me and assist on projects I don't have time for. One, N0JCF, is working on VoIP and TCP/IP projects with me. We bounce ideas off each other and usually come up with some better solutions. I prefer working with others vs working alone because if I have a stupid idea then a team mate will point it out and show me possible alternatives. It works both ways. When you are alone all your ideas are great ideas. There are roads I've taken in code that have cost me time that I wish I would have never went down. Having help prevents that. > Take a look at the more popular Amateur Radio programs, how many of > them are Open Source? fldigi is a good one and it is open source. The only closed amateur radio programs I use on my PC are related to D-Star. The ID-880 and 91AD programming software and DVTool. I believe D-Rats is open by design (Plain text Python) but I'm not sure about the license. I 'm not counting the obvious HRD because in my world HRD does not even exist.
