If I was UBNT, I wouldn't want my previous customers sharing their experience with Cambium gear either!
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:44 PM Ben Royer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that’s my biggest issue here also. Trying to be as unbiased in > the matter as possible, the biggest issue I have is that they brought a > Dist. and WISP into the lawsuit. I think if this was filed solely against > Cambium, everyone would have gone, ‘oh, that’s interesting, wonder what’s > going to happen.’ The second they included a Dist. and WISP, I have to > think every decent minded WISP and Dist. out there is going, ‘Wait, they > sued for that? I don’t think I want to associate to these people anymore > because I don’t want to be next.’ I could be wrong, but I feel for the > WISP especially in this case. I think to speak more to the call to WISPA to > take action, my view is this. If I’m a WISP, and I join WISPA to better > the community, a key component is I’m going to share my experience and > expertise on certain things. It’s my understanding, that’s ALL this WISP > did. They tried the product out, reported back to the company that sold it > to them on how it performed, and then it was published. So for another > company to come along and say, ‘Wait, you can’t use that product and you > certainly can’t promote the use of that product’, seems to me is the EXACT > opposite of what WISPA is about. It’s a VERY slippery slope they’ve opened > up here. I’m sure the WISP involved isn’t going to publically participate > in any more studies or open BETA programs. So you have to ask, what if > people highly trust this WISP, what if a few other highly trusted WISP’s > get the same treatment and shut down their open sharing of experience. Is > our industry growing now? Is it benefiting from this? Just my opinion, > but THAT’S to me, the biggest issue here. > > Thank you, > Ben Royer, Operations Manager > Royell Communications, Inc. > 217-965-3699 www.royell.net > > *From:* Sean Heskett <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 15, 2018 9:35 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA Members] Dear WISPA... > > If ubiquiti want to go after cambium for copyright infringement then by > all means go for it. But don’t drag Blip into conspiracy charges. > > It would seem WISPA could be a co-conspirator too > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:41 PM Mark Radabaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That’s where I’m curious about the copyright and hacking claims. The >> loaders and many of the tools are open source and/or are supplied by the >> chipset manufacturer. >> >> Mark >> >> On Aug 15, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah... it's not like you can just go download Openwrt, modify it as much >> as you want, without doing anything that even vaguely looks like hacking, >> and flash it on the things... >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:49 PM Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8/15/18 14:39, Mike Hammett wrote: >>> > https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot >>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.denx.de%2fwiki%2fU-Boot&c=E,1,9xQKKm0x3PKoYorBa6uxDycDpoDZlVkYwD3lFWtDuE2xELPDnBVGdOt3lWSM91wK722GBpxgV6upGmH6zRJmnSIdLeINLeHaNQD3TRg17LyI&typo=1> >>> > >>> >>> Clearly Cambium downloaded the source code for U-Boot and "hacked" >>> UBNT's super secret hardware. Because nobody else could possibly boot a >>> generic Atheros without hacking and collusion. >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2faf.afmug.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2faf_af.afmug.com&c=E,1,atVWeCAbV__KW9tRqvCZojhfq7y34XtmpCFqDSRnxCjNLxLlx1LMaQhm6G41gKwaK58jCzbm1vADJfwqP2PGQxqQKfwDCJYYRPNPxRNE&typo=1> >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2faf.afmug.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2faf_af.afmug.com&c=E,1,pnidCcyAlfnjYacjagPHAi8EmuimC08hyT0saoVBLTTkYOrGhOt4EVhjVWd2rphNizhD4cEhrdKUcsOnefERki94o3EdL9iRYSI9SUU-&typo=1> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2faf.afmug.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2faf_af.afmug.com&c=E,1,6W5TJuovKXP1lGLpkjb3N6TgFpDoyRtfSzRJ565fqXSp_4OvxDgo4zGXhio-0jCxT2XMLkgiVgSpfLBkBoytr40qsALryGjkOqM-VR-c&typo=1> >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2faf.afmug.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2faf_af.afmug.com&c=E,1,1FqnaMffrI-xaXPDfe_Bo8ji-gYLOYhW2kU30q_RlWWWeBQ7PZPBCb96PTK_27wgHET2Rr5RVWmcuSOk3sKR-QZIYrq8A1wue6XpivvM&typo=1 > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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