J. Edward (Ed) Muns wrote:
your K3 vs. what the latest version is available on the server. If you want
to download, simply click the 'Download' button, wait 2-3 minutes and that's
it.
This thread concerns me. The download mechanism seems seriously
over-engineered and to have built in obsolescence.
Whilst one might provide more user friendly wrappers for the upload
protocol, I can see no sound reason why it should not have been designed
so that one can upload updates using almost any off the shelf terminal
emulator program, preferably as simply as a straight dump of an Intel
hex file to the K3.
By forcing people to use a Windows application, Elecraft are requiring
the use of a specific brand of software and the use of hardware that is
orders of magnitude more powerful than actually needed to do the job,
when the former should never be a requirement for using the K3 and the
latter is not a requirement.
The built in obsolescence arises because the Microsoft revenue
generation model depends on forcing people to continually update
software to stand still. This tends to mean that any Windows dependent
software must be regularly updated.
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