I have an amateur radio licence and I agree. One reason I rarely operate...

I always found it interesting how many useful little apps hams write, keep them closed source and then...die.

Could it be because of the history of radio and early electronics being full of inventors getting ripped off by unscrupulous parties...?

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It's kind of alarming how much more enjoyable the less legal communities in the radio hobby are to spend time around.

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		I get the sense that a lot of the hams I’ve met have a framed hall-monitor sash from their high school years. I’ve been sniffing around it as a hobby for decades but there are just a ton of people involved that clearly are exorcising trauma from being bullied or feeling marginalized in their life on a whole. Following and enforcing the rules seemed like the beef big draw for a sadly large chunk of them.