Bi-weekly OpenMoko community update
Jay Vaughan
jayv at synth.net
Mon Oct 15 11:18:55 CEST 2007
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> so no, we do want and require the source code to everything
>
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Change your government then. In the US for example, there are strict
FCC-imposed regulations on how open certain portions of the carrier
network can be, and this extends to the chip-level in consumer
handsets. These regulations are enforced in the States, but also
imposed internationally as well.. and yes, before you don the tin-
foil hat, they're designed to protect the ability for law enforcement
to protect the network, as well as intrude on it. A fully open
carrier layer would impede this, and there is doctrine in many
western governments to protect the sandbox. This carries down all
the way to the individual implementors (chip mfr's), and at some
point, you can expect a brick wall. Naivity is no excuse; government
also.
j.
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Jay Vaughan
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