[ltp] Re: I bought the R52 !!!

[km]

On 04/10, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:47, Harry Popov wrote:
> 
> > program for meteor scatter, for contacts via the moon, PSK31 and at
> > least one usable logging program. Yes there are several so called
> > programs but if you just compare them with Windows equivalents will
> > understand that they are really bad!!! and unusable. I compare free
> > Windows programs only. And many prefer to pay for such a jewel as MixW
> > instead to fight with buggy alfa Linux programs.
> 
> if it's important to you that there be such programs write them yourself.  
> Then no one would have any reason to complain, and you would have standing to 
> tell everyone how it should be.  You could be fixing the problem instead of 
> telling other people to do it for you.
> 
> I now have an IBM TransNote.  It appears there isn't Linux support for the 
> digitizing pad, but there is an SDK.  I have a day job, but I'm interested, 
> so I'll do the work myself, and share it.
> 
> Free Software isn't about winning, it's about freedom.  Write something and 
> share it.
> 
> But if it is about winning, you won't win much complaining, but you might by 
> doing some work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bret

Great advice.

If you want to use Linux, you have to learn c and start to write your own
programs! Wow, thats a competitive edge no other OS in 2005 has!

The guy just stated that he had no programming experience and that he
could help out with other things.

-km