On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote: > matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim > proprietorship on a product which was develop as open sourced > hardware project. many of people have contributed to it on Mr. Ettus The copyright is at Ettus. EDA-files are not distributed. So it's a commercial version, not a community version. At least for the hardware. Only the firmware is open-source (using also opensource components like ethernet implementation).
> I alone Estimated its costing on DIGI key and other sites for parts > and PCB sourcing and all > it not exceeding $200 and he is www.ettus.com claiming $150 for > handling n shipping alone. > so outside US it would be around $1000. my apologies if i used harsh words. It's not much for the tax-payer or commercial clients. But it's a lot for a hobbyist. Why can't there be a open-source community version of a Gnuradio-Hardware, about $200 for the material, do-it-yourself assembling, some performance tradeoffs (no expensive MIMO connector, cheap FPGA variant) etc. ? This is a RX-only SDR with all relevant design files (Schematics, PCB, Gerber), BOM about $200 : http://sdrtrack.drupalcafe.com/?q=node/2 Maybe somebody wants to donate a design to the GNU community? It won't by a one-way street. I guess the community will continue to improve the design after an initial start. Also GNU itself didn't start from zero, but used lots of Unix developments to create a free alternative. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
