At 03:54 PM 3/8/2007, K6JEK wrote: > > I seem to have unintentionally started a thread which now seems to > > have a > > mind of its own and is starting to dig deep into the American psyche - > > > >Indeed. The Flex people invited oil and vinegar to the same party by >making an open source software product based on a closed operating >system, a most unusual combination. And now oil and vinegar explain >why the other is crazy.
There's actually quite a lot of open source software available for Windows. It's not that unusual.. you run with what you've got, and if what you've got is a Windows box, that's what you develop for. It *is* true that there are open source zealots who believe that closed anything is anathema, but heck, there are zealots everywhere, and they constitue an interesting, but minor, proportion of the overall user population. We rely on zealots to poke at the boundaries.. as they say, "the paths of progress are paved with the bodies of dead pioneers" (which I first heard at NCR..back when they had dreams of computer dominance...) James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 _______________________________________________ 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/
