flex may have the benefit of a megabuck in free software development but we get the really cool toy to play with!
phil AB2JL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Brickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave Kiefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex Radio 1 watt Redirection > Dave Kiefer wrote: > >> You don't see the big picture of what they are doing so you don't know >> all the reasons behind >> their decisions and you shouldn't because it is none of your business. > > Not to be argumentative, but let's also remember that Flex has > also been the beneficiary of over $1,000,000 in software > development resources without having had to pay for it. That's all > due to the GPL. > > The investors -- the developers, major and minor -- in this case > have been motivated not by altruism but my enlightened > self-interest. Building a quality common infrastructure is good > for all of us, just as with highways, bridges, sewers, and so on. > > Flex as a business, as it now exists, and with its present > prospects, would be inconceivable without this kind of support. > And this kind of support would be inconceivable without a solid > social and legal compact like the GPL. > > Trust but verify, as St. Ronald Reagan said :-) > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
