On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 07:52 AM, Hans Summers wrote:
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Yes, I believe you are 100% correct. Much of it could indeed have been released piecemeal as releases in their own right.?
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If you had then I think there would have been a massive amount of demands for the additional features to be added NOW!? There would have been massive criticism.? The "are we there yet" posts would have? been replaced by "I want it NOW!" posts.? This would have been far more stressful and harmful to the QMX Labs reputation.
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In more detail:
It couldn't have been launched without a UI to control things - everything, the more functionality the more UI.? It isn't optional.
It had to have SSB.
It had to have microphone input.
SSB may have needed it's calibration functions.
The microphone would probably need compression and it emerged that noise cancellation was required.
I personally don't use VOX, so everyone else could do without that :)
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CESSB might have been able to be left but for most features there would have been instant demands for them and Hans would have been coping with juggling these demands at the same time as doing what he's doing now, responding to and fixing bugs - and having a break I hope!
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Then I'm also a UK software developer who worked for a UK scientific tech company (Oxford Instruments) and we tried not to release products until they were ready.
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Chris, G5CTH
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