Towards the end of the video, he answers questions on a number of topics, including his professional research, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
Towards the end of the video, he answers questions on a number of topics, including his professional research, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
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Dave New, N8SBE says
Joe’s created quite a stink, though, by putting anti-auto-sequence mitigations in his software, and then deleting emails on the reflector that complain about it.
The OK button is placed randomly on the screen after each QSO, to prevent folks from using a screen-scraper program from pushing the button automatically. This not only prevents folks from using it in ‘automagic’ mode, but also punishes all the handicapped users with motion or vision problems.
Talk about stepping in a big pile of doo-doo. A number of folks are moving to JTDX, which works just fine, and doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
I wonder how Joe thinks he can control this, because the software is licensed under the GPL and is free to download the source and modify it to your heart’s content (including backing out the punishing changes). You can re-publish it as a fork, as long as you publish the source, as well, thus saith the GPL.
Christopher Goodman says
In reply to N8SBE,
While the GNU GPL license makes the source code publicly available. You will find a copyright with the author(s) name in the source code, which is part of the GPL license for enforcement. An author still has control of the software released under his authorship. If you want to make a significant contribution, then one can be made a co-author. If you create a fork and release it under your name, you take responsibility of the changes you have made.
In my opinion, JT has a reasonable right to prevent spam and automated entries to make the use of his software in dx and contesting situations. We should create a tragedy of the commons, by hogging the use of the software for personal advantage.
Christopher Goodman says
Correction: We should Not create a tragedy of the commons situation, by using software for personal advantage.