Rome wrote:
but what you get in the result is absolutely unpredictable.
Yes it is unpredictable but as for the other side, the truly effective one, casdr has predicted things months ago. It seems unpredictable vs predictable is a fight without winners.
Anyway, don't walk the open source path, there is a middle way. The open architecture one. You can have the absolute control on software, firmware and hardware and at the same time you are giving the opportunity to the tinker ham community to add extra value to your efforts. Tinkering was always a representative characteristic of ham culture.
Look for example that wonderful invention of yours the tci which I hope someday will be an industry standard. Tci provided the opportunity to other programmers to talk and flirt with eesdr in so much quantity that other software now, that you never had the intention to develop, can integrate a small part of them in eesdr. This is an extra value that surely bring more machines of yours to radio shacks around the world.
Can you imagine what will happened if there some different kinds of filters or different implementations of the same developed by other guys for an eesdr user to choose from, a totally skinable interface, sound plugins etc perhaps ? And you don't have to go open source just create and expose some api.
Maybe you can create a marketplace to lure programmers to develop and sale their stuff for some extra bucks. You can make eesdr a suite not just an application.Commissions made also Apple what it is, not just iphones.
For example I wouldn't have problem to pay some extra money to someone that can create a plugin for the band scope (witch although a great feature it is unusable at least for me the way it is implemented) in order to give the capability to slice it to multiple frequencies ranges i choose so I can monitor all the bands I want in same time in smaller separated windows.
Ok these things probably cannot be implemented, eesdr3 is already near completion, they could be food for thoughts for the eesdr4.
There is also something that I want to talk as a part of this community and a member of this forum. Eric although he become a kind of a nightmare ex from a horror movie have had a lot of contribution to this place, thing that in my opinion should be thanked about, deleting all his presence was rather a brute action. Moderating a forum is something must be done. Erasing the total existence of a contributing member is more of a revenge. Revenge is not good. kindness, relax, tolerance, open mind and looking forward is good.
A happy ham year with prosperity and good propagation to all of us I wish