Well, you just described my day job. We sell hardware (Ethernet controllers) and the driver I support is open sourced Linux and FreeBSD. There are also closed-source versions but I only do backup-support on those.
Yes, it would require more support on Elecraft's end but it wouldn't be impossible to manage, just hard. There's a lot of repeating, "If you can't reproduce it on the official X version driver, then you're on your own." But then again there are a lot of bug fixes that other people can do for you. I don't blame them for not doing it, but I'm still on the "It would be nice" side of this. Oe Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Chester Alderman wrote:
To me that is just a silly expectation for ANY ham radio manufacturer to consider. Can you just imagine what a quagmire Elecraft would generate if they open-sourced their firmware? They would have to stop producing profitable products just to spend time trying to pull software 'expurts' out of the trouble they themselves generated. And once the 'community' turned the firmware into total trash, then you would expect Elecraft to bail you out????
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