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May I give a very personal comment on what I have recently read about a
proposed new SDR architecture,<br>
be it modeled along the FSM document or similar lines ?<br>
<br>
Who is the average hobbyist developer of an SDR program ? More often
than not, he is what could be<br>
called a 'lone wolf'... he develops things according to his personal
vision of how things should be developed...<br>
it is not easy to force him into a pre-built structure and
architecture...<br>
<br>
This can be done instead easily in the commercial world, where
developers are paid, and work not for their own<br>
intimate pleasure, but to earn their salary... the perspective is
different.... if the specs of the project say :<br>
"You must implement a message-passing architecture, where the client
and server talk to each other using<br>
the Occam protocol (...)", then he will do it, because he is paid to do
it.<br>
<br>
But it takes much more to have him implement such a thing if the
motivation behind his work is that of self<br>
accomplishment, and personal rewarding when he admires the product of
his efforts.... <br>
<br>
He will do that only if he himself is convinced that that is that right
way to do it, not because someone else <br>
decided it, but because that decision happens to be coincident with his
personal decision.... <br>
<br>
Hobbyist, open source project cannot and should not, IMHO, managed as
it would be right to do for a<br>
commercial project... otherwise they are doomed to failure....<br>
<br>
But, as said, these are just my personal feelings, which, probably, are
all wrong. <br>
But I just wanted to expose them....<br>
<br>
73 Alberto I2PHD<br>
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