I used to code in Clipper in a past life. Many ex-Clipper devs became Delphi devs when the Great Fragmentation happened (multiple competing OO frameworks for Clipper).

This sounds like me, except the year was 1986, and the software on the bunch of floppies was Borland Turbo Pascal. Included photocopied manuals too.

Sad to see the failure of a truly alternative product.

It's business 101 that the retail price should cover all production costs, including R&D, otherwise you are in shortfall from day 0.

Retail price over the full sales run. Kickstarter was just the preorder phase of it and thus likely doesn't cover the full R&D, especially not if the estimates were off in some way.

You could argue it certainly, but I suspect it might cost a bit, and you would end up at the bottom of a long list of creditors.

I have been through a number of SDRs - Softrock, RTLSDR, HackRF, and more recently I have a Red Pitaya (http://redpitaya.com/) and am ICOM 7300 (http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/hf/7300/defau...), which is a traditional looking radio with SDR at its core.

The flexibility offered by doing all the work in software is ground-breaking... really only limited by imagination.

I look forward to seeing some end-user reviews of this device when it finally ships. I realise that there are plenty of pre-production reviews, but I believe that the final version will have broader matching networks, facilitating better sensitivity on HF and low VHF.

That DJ EZ mix is excellent. Reminds me of everything I love about the London electronic music scene.