Joe Leikhim,
(note, i'm mobile, so apologies for typos)
I'm not trying to pick a fight with anyone, if asking someone this question... "How does AMSAT benefit by pursuing an open source policy?"... really makes you feel like i'm belittling a proposition, please re-read what I wrote. The 'belittling' portion was your original thought. I was just pointing out how the GPL works... belittle that.
"You would think the AMSAT bank accounts would be overflowing"
Well, I honestly don't know... I'll return the question because I, and I assume many others reading have not seen financials, sohow are AMSAT bank accounts doing? From all accounts from the BB, I have no evidence indicating the numbers are bad, except for hear-say... Numbers please...?
"and invitations for HEO launches would be so many we would be turning them down?"
Who is turning HEO launches down, and more specifically why? Please clarify.
Joseph Armbruster KJ4JIO
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:50 PM Joe Leikhim via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
/Joseph; you wax on about intellectual property and symbiotic relationships etc, and then ask / //"How does AMSAT benefit b//y pursuing an open source policy?" May I ask, how in the past 10 years has AMSAT benefited by running the proprietary system they are running now? You would think the AMSAT bank accounts would be overflowing and invitations for HEO launches would be so many we would be turning them down? Please answer this before belittling the proposition. / On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 7:21 AM Joseph Armbruster <josepharmbruster at gmail.com https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb> wrote: />>//>>/You did not really answer the first question: "How does AMSAT benefit />>/by pursuing an open source policy?" />
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