RE: AX25 and related software's future in Debian

["Marius Petrescu" <marius@yo2loj.ro>]

Please take the effort to remember the whole thread...

It started because there was a proposal to rename node from the ax25 suite
into something else, so that "newcomer" node.js  could be named node
instead.
(What a server side javascript package has with in common with the name node
is still a mistery to me, maybe the authors should calle it kernel since the
name and function seems to be irelevant and unrelated in their opinion...)

And the idea behind distros like Ubuntu is not about having or not the ax25
package in the distribution, but the issue of CONSISTENCY. It is really
idiotic to have "node" an ax25 node communication software as a package in
one distro (e.g. Ubuntu) and in another one to have "node" a java script
package (talking about Debian where the discussion started).
Remember this happened before: axmail was just overrun by some After Logic
XMail, without any hesitations. But this seems to be the trend... 
For "the clicking generation", ham radio is an obscure activity which just
can be trampled down since it does not result in nice pictures on a device
with an bitten fruit on it, and packet radio just some obsolete
non-important stuff that can be ignored (Duhhhh, ever heard of 3G and HSDPA?
Why would you want to use that?).

But again maybe this is a signal to get some fresh wind into ham radio apps,
maybe ax.25 in its current concept is really obsolete. And in this case we
need to do something about it. Making it maybe a little more "clickable"...

Marius, YO2LOJ 
proud user of ax.25