Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Deeper story on FCC versus open source SDR

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:05:53PM -0400, zuzu (sean) wrote:
> forgive my ignorance if this has already been discussed, but how much  
> overlap of communication is actually occurring here (among the  
> GNUradio / software defined radio / cognitive radio scene) with the  
> Open Spectrum movement vis-a-vis Larry Lessig, David P. Reed, et. al.?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_spectrum
> http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/framing_openspectrum.html
> http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/03/12/spectrum/index.html
> http://www.reed.com/dprframeweb/dprframe.asp?section=openspec
> http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003708.shtml


There's quite a bit of "cross-pollination" between the groups.

Eric




> On 7/26/07, Philip Balister <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Some more takes on the FCC position.
> >
> > My favorite is the second. The line "The Software Defined Radio (SDR)
> > Forum politely responded that the FCC did not know what it was doing
> > and asked it to get a clue." amuses me.
> >
> > http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise/ 
> articles/8305-sflc-releases-white-paper-fcc-rules-software-defined.htm
> > http://reclaimthemedia.org/legislation_and_regulation/ 
> fcc_doesnt_know_what_its_talki=5340
> > http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0%2c39044192% 
> 2c62028023%2c00.htm
> >
> > Philip