|
Thanks for the kind words. I think the point of the forum should be to facilitate the open sharing of information for the purpose of advancing the cause. That said, it's definitely not. It's a commercial enterprise, designed to make money for everyone except the folks who use it to try and gather information lol. Vendors don't come here to teach us anything, they come here to market products to their target audience. If that weren't the case and they were in fact here for the same reasons we are, we'd be about a year ahead of where we are now. Luckily, you can't stop the train. Once the floodgates open it's impossible to shut them again, and there will always be people here who are more interested in helping people solve problems than selling them something.
Just look at the state of FT86 tuning after only a few months of end-user visibility. It sucks that we have to figure this stuff out all over again by ourselves, but everything we troubleshoot our way through is something the next guy won't have to. The pros don't want to sell the farm. We want to make it a hippy commune, and we will inevitably win.
|