I have a client in the antenna design business. He writes: EZNEC is a toy program, using free NEC versions developed by LLNL (NEC4 is expensive however). All EZNEC does is add a GUI shell on top of the NEC program. So no one should buy the (copy) rights from Lewallen, whose only 'right' is on a GUI that someone has to maintain. If allowed to go into the public domain, then enough hackers will themselves keep the GUI going and, indeed, improve it. Let it die. Others will pick it up in their own version thereafter. Please understand that this discussion is way beyond my personal ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation. But I thought the opinion of a knowledgeable person might be useful for the discussion. Fred Hopengarten, Esq. K1VR Six Willarch Road Lincoln, MA 01773 781.259.0088, <mailto:k1vr@arrl.org> k1vr@arrl.org New England Director cid:a4a12f0b-0468-4a39-b953-31b2a3da8564 Serving ME, NH, VT, MA, RI and CT
