<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 6, 2016 12:07:21 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] OT: it is only me or ... ?<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Yep! I've notice the word "open" in heavy use. I hope it's a good thing.</div><br><div>Yes, I want your open-hardware cookie recipe!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I love it. People that like to tinker create these open designs and then Chinese crank them out in factories. Now, you and I can go buy them in mass on eBay.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I bought a very nice L/C Arduino meter from $35. I've seen nice graphing antenna analyzers for under $100. Software Defined Receivers for less than $100. So much neat stuff we can get now because people created "open" designs.</div></div></div></body></html>