Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

[Jeff Brower]

Don-

> I'm not going to get all "awestruck" about the guy.  No one is worthy of 
> that.  He
> may be your friend, but this is just business.  Nothing personal.

After seeing 100s of engineers and projects and companies go by in my 30 years 
of
engineering, I can say you probably ought to be awestruck by Matt Ettus.  He's 
that
good.  Through creativity, clear thinking and hard work, he's created something
extremely valuable to humanity, used by 1000s of developers.

On the other hand, I sure hope Matt did his homework on NI and added appropriate
conditions in the acquisition agreement.

-Jeff


Don Fanning wrote:
> 
> Am I denying that he shouldn't be paid?  No.
> He has done a great bit of work and much congratulations to him for taking his
> business to the "next level".
> 
> I'm not going to get all "awestruck" about the guy.  No one is worthy of 
> that.  He
> may be your friend, but this is just business.  Nothing personal.
> 
> When someone touts a product that doesn't include all the pieces, then they 
> should
> be given a chance to respond and make it right.
> 
> As for my tone:  Matt started it. :-)
> 
> I kinda felt something like this was happening when wouldn't repost the 
> hardware
> designs back into the SVN.  Apparently, I was right to be concerned as should
> anyone involved with the project.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>      I never do this, but:
> 
>      You have no idea what you are talking about. Please be better informed
>      before libeling a real champion of open source software and hardware
>      and who has done so much for the software radio community as a whole.
>      On a personal level, he's also a very good friend.
> 
>      I will let Matt answer your specific issues, but I find your tone to
>      be insulting and your comments baseless. This is not the kind of
>      community we have been fostering here.
> 
>      Tom