[Discuss-gnuradio] Groklaw and Dr. Frank Brickle discuss SDR

[John Gilmore]

Groklaw.net is an interesting blog by Pamela Jones, paralegal of
mystery, who has entertainingly coordinated the free software
community's response to the SCO v. IBM lawsuit.  Once in a while the
lawsuit gets slow and she has time to cover other things -- like
Katrina, FEMA, and emergency communications.  Frank talks about how he
was approached by FEMA to help make DttSP and the SDR-1000 usable by
FEMA and other first responders to patch together their lockdown
government-contractor radio systems:

  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050916105216639

Many comments by readers are interesting, too.

Frank's comments were based on this earlier posting by Pamela about
how using open standards makes systems much more likely to work in
emergencies:

  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005091305273070

        John