Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/7/10 Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
An interesting (to me) discussion, probably not for this list, would be
exactly how open a cell phone could be and still get regulatory approval.
It is very relevant to this list, and I've wondered the same thing
myself. Radio transmitters need to be pretty locked down to get FCC
approval. That's why there are so many problems with wifi cards under
Linux. How open could the OpenMoko be and still get approval?
AFAIK, actual RF communication is done on a separate chip which runs a
propritery firmware. It is governed by a small user space daemon on the
main Linux running chip and it is NOT open source, but is the only
component which is not.
Gilad
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