John Gilmore schrieb:
http://news.com.com/Feds+snub+open+source+for+smart+radios/2100-1041_3-6195102.html
This story had more details and investigation than the others I'd seen.
This article was sent out on the list a few weeks ago. I personally see
such a ruling as sinster. As it
stands with 802.11 and 'FreeBSD' + Sam Leffler's HAL, while allowing for
much more application
variablility than the 'access point', and 'station' model of using
802.11... the closed 'HAL' has presented
many obsticles to applications which would operate in the regulation
limit, such as lower than X power
or within X bandwidth, but because of the FCC's paranoia (and other
regulatory agencies around the
world...), such applications as 5 MHz bandwith 802.11 operation, are
very difficult to acheve without
paying '3-rd' party developers to make crappy software 'attempts', then
charge more for 'fixing', or
even eventually saying that 'you needs are such small potatoes that we
don't want your business'.
For companies that have the funding, I'm sure such regulations are minor
obstacles, just part of
the development costs. However for many smaller operations, or even 'low
funded' operations
in bigger companies these sorts of regulations are basically brick walls
to innovative products...
John Clark
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