Joe, I feel your pain having been there myself. Sometimes I was lucky enough to have someone like Nathan around to save me, others time not so much. Nathan, if your offer wasn’t followed up on it was probably because Joe didn’t see it. I don’t think he has ever turned down qualified help 😊

H0wie AB2S

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From: Nathan Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:34 PM
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Limits of Open Source development.

I don't think I agree with this. The main advantage of FOSS is that since you have access to the code you have a fighting chance, and more importantly, the right, to modify that software. Meaning someone could have sat down and added that feature and allowed others to benefit from it. 

Interestingly, that's probably something I could have cranked out. But given AMSAT has ignored literally _every_ volunteer form I have taken the time to fill out I guess we'll never know. 

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 2:08 PM Joe Fitzgerald <joe.km1p@gmail.com> wrote:

Howie wrote:

>This is a good example of why open source development is so important,

>especially for a small volunteer organization.

While I generally agree that there is a strong argument for open source development, it is important to realize that it has limitations.   I am particularly grumpy about those limits today since I am involved in a particular project where all the open source goodness of GNU and Ubuntu was unable to provide well motivated engineers with working tools to properly migrate user preferences in what should have been a simple upgrade.

de KM1P Joe

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