[App_rpt-users] Lies, damn lies, and John David McGough

[Steve L]

This will be my last post on this.

Legal action likely isn't viable.  Unless someone has a lot of money
to piss away on legal folks.   It next to never is in legal cases
where money isn't being exchanged for a product or service.  So they
only people who win are the lawyers.

The more logical thing is for either group "try to beat its own
game"... And that is precisely what I see going on here.

The best advise I can give ASL is, Work on the documentation as that
is what I see as the hamvoip advantage.  The wiki was a good move.

Educate users.  Things like iaxrpt, and allmon2 wouldn't exist in a
closed source environment.

Give and document credit where it is due to reinforce this.

While it may be that the Hamvoip code base predates a GPL license, the
problem is there is no way to substantiate without showing the source
code.  It could very well be a one way door, where all the ASL stuff,
and addons that do share their code openly are borrowed improperly
into a closed hamvoip source version.  This is the problem the end
users don't get.  Basically building a "better" thing, but built off
the backs of others.

It's like buying a Chinese made electronics item and saying you are
happy with the price, but then upset that more and more electronics
jobs are going overseas.  You can't have it two ways.


On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:24 PM Mike <mm at midnighteng.com> wrote:
>
> Take legal action or shut up !
>
> This topic mailing is not going to change anyone's mind about the issue
> including mine.
>
> But this topic is nearly 40% of the message traffic in the last year.
>
> Sorry,
>
> I AM DONE WITH IT
>
> Live in the misery you create !  ...unsubscribing
>
>
> ...mike/kb8jnm
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