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Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: rstofer on November 02, 2018, 06:17:54 pm ---Digilent has given us an SDK (I haven't used it) and documentation along with sample programs.
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That are written in style which does not exactly inspire confidence; and the programs are crashy.


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 02, 2018, 06:17:54 pm ---Why should they have to release their source?
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Who asked for any sources?

I don't even want to see their sources. What I'd like to know, is the specifications for the communications protocols, so I can write my own. Those I'm willing to release.


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 02, 2018, 06:17:54 pm ---Same with Waveforms, it works every time I use the AD2.
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Until it crashes, you mean.


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 02, 2018, 06:17:54 pm ---Less than 2% of desktops use Linux - I wonder why a company would even bother to support it.  More than 27 years later and, still, nobody cares.
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Except that when you do high performance computation, it is the only OS used.  All top 500 supercomputers are Linux.  All computing clusters doing heavy work run Linux.  Who the heck even cares about desktops?  Not proper developers, at least.  They use proper tools, not some toy operating system a big company has convinced a lot of people to use.

You know what they say: a billion flies cannot be wrong.

Crazy_Pete:
>Digilent has given us an SDK (I haven't used it) and documentation along with sample programs.

An SDK that is also closed source and is clearly poorly written.   Furthermore when the one line shell script crashed that calls the program, the developer immediately blamed open source libraries.   ("That's Handled in the QT libs"  <--- his exact words)  There is an open source JAVA sdk and when i asked the developer about my doing something similar in C++ he just clammed up.    Which means these people are not supporting open source

>Why should they have to release their source?

The truth is, as a matter of ethics, nobody should HAVE to do anything!  :)

I pointed out if they would release their sources, i would fix their program.   The real question is why WOULDN'T they release their source?   Why do hardware gurus think that software is intrinsically valuable?    Hardware engineers are brain surgeons, Software engineers are cleaning ladies.    We are essential to the functioning of the surgery, but we are no where near as valuable as a brain surgeon.

Although honestly i don't expect them to release their sources.     What i actually did ask was for some basic support as to where we should start open sourcing the SDK in C++/C.   (And i was clear to them that all i needed was their approval and permission, to which they wouldn't respond.)

Again it is really an issue of the brain surgeon not trusting the cleaning lady to do her job.   (And i beat this dead horse repeatedly in this forum because i  think this  forum is the place to find OPEN MINDED hardware geniuses.)

The truth is all anybody expected from them was a bit of support as to where we could begin creating a properly written open source SDK and they saw that as a total threat to their business model.    Alright, i bought the Siglent instead based on the total cooperation i received from a Team of people from Siglent and Saelig.

>Less than 2% of desktops use Linux - I wonder why a company would even bother to support it

Very little "real" computing is done in Windows.   A large number of webservers are running Centos.    I actually made a career out of refusing to support Windows.   (I had talked to enough other consultants and done enough with Microsoft to realise their stuff was junk.)   I had a reputation for 100% success in an industry known for 100% failure.    The reason i avoided these failures was because i refused to work with any Microsoft Tools and actually wrote that into my contracts.    As an analogy, most artwork is kindergarten children fingerpainting.    I don't know why companies bother to sell paint and canvas to art schools.  :)


Thanks to All

Crazy Pete

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