Hi Julian,
Why hasn't this subject died, like the mode itself? The developer has said he
won't develop it any more, so ROS (the mode) is dead.
The fact that someone wants to take over a website makes no difference unless
the source code for the mode is also handed over so that development can also
continue, including perhaps incorporation of the mode into the open software
like DM780 and Fldigi.
Do you really want to continue promoting a mode which, unless the above occurs,
will always be an outsider never able to be given or use its own distinctive
RSID and therefore always the cause of confusion wherever it is used?
We should be glad that it is over and leave it to rest in peace. If ROS proved
anything of interest from a technical point of view, someone else will
eventually develop an alternative, hopefully in an open and non-confrontational
manner.
Julian, G4ILO
I think you are right. I wish I had more time to devote to programming so I
could participate on such a project but, well, it is not that way right now.
I don't know if any other person in this Group has talked with Mr. Ros, as I did
a month or so ago, in a local ham meeting (2010 EA-QRP meeting in Sinarcas). As
I saw it, there was no way he would allow to get other people involved in the
development nor getting any other feedback that the one in the blog and by
e-mail (yes, there was a recently founded official ROS group but activity was
lacking). So it was difficult to have a long-run development certainty.
All in all, if someone wants to start from scratch with a similar mode, it would
be fine... but, of course, the SS question remains on air.
Well, let's enjoy any other of the multiple digital modes available!
See you on my PC ;-)
Best regards,
JOSE
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