"Hank Oredson" wrote

Perhaps you could attempt to answer my simple question,
or is that too hard for you?

What "new development"?

What you are trying to say, is that there is nothing new. It's not really a
question, it is an indictment. One of your continuing themes in this group
has been that you know what is good for everyone, and that your "religion"
is the correct one, and everyone else is going to "hell".

IRLP is nothing more than a solution to a need, that gives people an
added joy to their hobby. Like packet radio, it will probably be fun for
a few years, and then people will drop it and go off to something that is
more fun/different.

A good friend of mine used to say "I don't build repeaters anymore, because
it attracts the wrong people to the hobby." Packet radio is the same problem.
The people it attracts don't even care to adjust their hardware.

IRLP will attract the wrong people to the hobby, and the people who built it
will go off and start a new project.

It's nothing to get upset over.