@markgarrison Correct me if I am way off here, but why not open source all of Logic2 and let the community support you?
Personally, there are two main reasons why Saleae is the only logic analyzer choice for me:
- The hardware is unrivaled in its reliability, specs, and build quality inside and out and at a very reasonable price point. (
) - I have tried several other logic analyzer products and irrespective of the quality and features of the hardware itself, the GUI and automation software experience is positively awful and neigh unusable.
Both of the above qualities have to be present for people to want to buy your logic analyzer. And unless I am missing something, open sourcing your software should not negatively affect Saleae in any way and should in fact only increase sales and user satisfaction. Why? Because it is very much harder to duplicate your hardware product and is really infeasible to do so and without your hardware the software is useless anyway. Although, I suppose it is a fair argument that open sourcing the software would permit competing logic analyzer hardware to overcome the software UI problem and thus potentially eat up potential sales of your hardware… so yeah I’d buy that argument. But of course I would assert that your hardware offerings are much superior to the competition that you won’t run into this problem.
But anyway, that’s just the two cents of a random embedded developer haha.