No one said anything about a warranty fix, in fact I mentioned a few days ago that Elecraft might be discovering a profit center...
Please expand on just exactly what is so telling? -- 73's, and thanks, Dave (NK7Z) For software/hardware reviews see: http://www.nk7z.net For MixW support see: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info For SSTV help see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 13:32 -0500, Kevin Stover wrote: > And who gets to fix the radio, under warrantee of course, when this > home > brewed command line utility bricks the radio? Through this whole > discussion I've heard very little from proponents of open sourcing > the > utilities on this minor little point. Telling isn't it. > > This could be a profit center for Elecraft now that I think about it. > If > it were me, I'd charge $1,500 to fix any Elecraft product which has > had > it's brains blown out by some home brewed and unsupported flash > utility. > > > > > On 4/9/2016 1:13 PM, ei6iz.Brendan Minish wrote: > > > > I think that all most of us would need would be a command line > > utility that > > can be used to update firmware and perhaps back up settings. > > Either making this open source or just releasing the protocol spec > > would be > > all that's needed. > > This would not require the firmware to be open sourced, it would > > just mean > > that the Elecraft provided firmwares can be uploaded to the radio. > > > > Icing on the cake would be the ability to make radio backups > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
