Dumb noob idea: Officially working with Radiodity?
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:04 pm
This is my first day on this forum, so posts I make today are totally uninformed.... In my experience in a new place like this, the answers are usually "Yeah, we've been doing that for years now", or "We tried that and got shot down because of XYZ." That said, my noob questions:
Have community members tried reaching out to Radiodity to see if we can work with them in an open, positive, blessed manner? I see we're taking great pains to scrub source code from our code base that does not have a clean copyright history, and I'm willing to help in that effort. However, sooner or later, the GD-77 will become a dinosaur as new radios are released. How awesome would it be to work collaboratively with the manufacturer so that shortly after public launch, OpenGD77 were up and running perfectly on the new radios? Sure, we probably achieve that today, but how cool would it be to be part of their press releases, and to have simpler installation, etc?
Frankly, I would never have bought two of these things if it were not for OpenGD77. Hackability matters to the ham community. Radiodity currently seems to have the lead in hackability. Would they be willing to work with this community to further that lead?
73, Bill ak3q
Have community members tried reaching out to Radiodity to see if we can work with them in an open, positive, blessed manner? I see we're taking great pains to scrub source code from our code base that does not have a clean copyright history, and I'm willing to help in that effort. However, sooner or later, the GD-77 will become a dinosaur as new radios are released. How awesome would it be to work collaboratively with the manufacturer so that shortly after public launch, OpenGD77 were up and running perfectly on the new radios? Sure, we probably achieve that today, but how cool would it be to be part of their press releases, and to have simpler installation, etc?
Frankly, I would never have bought two of these things if it were not for OpenGD77. Hackability matters to the ham community. Radiodity currently seems to have the lead in hackability. Would they be willing to work with this community to further that lead?
73, Bill ak3q