Let me add one clarification on my comments about competitors using our openness development process against us. I was referring to resellers of radios, NOT manufacturers of radios.
Regards, Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President FlexRadio Systems 13091 Pond Springs Rd. #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 www.flex-radio.com "Tune in excitement!" (TM) -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Brian Lloyd Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:07 PM To: Flex reflector Subject: Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote: > >> But there is another way to think about this. Yes, it may scare >> someone off but I can't imagine it scaring off someone who really >> should buy a Flex radio. If it scares a potential buyer, maybe you >> don't really want that buyer. In my businesses it was always fewer >> than 10% of the customers who caused 90% of the problems. In one >> case I even refunded one customer's money and set them up with our >> competitor's product because that customer was *killing* our >> support group. :-) The moral of this story is two-fold: > > Uh Gerald -- please don't send me a gift certificate from Elecraft. > Thanks. ;-) Well, seems that my comment above was construed negatively by some people. They took the comment to imply: 1. that Elecraft is the company using the discussions on this list as a way to "prove" that their products are better; 2. that somehow my comment should reflect negatively on Flex Radio, i.e. as if it were somehow supported by Gerald and the rest of Flex Radio. I didn't think that there was any way that it could have been construed that way but clearly it was. So, just to make things perfectly clear, my comment was intended as JOKE. It was not intended to be taken seriously in any way. If anything, I was poking fun at my own expense as I know that some of my comments have required people at Flex to bite their tongues on occasion. 2. I happen to hold Elecraft in very high esteem. By choice I also have an Elecraft transceiver and expect to get another. It was in no way intended as a slight on Elecraft. <sigh> -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
