firmware Re: IMEI

[Learning It]

What about reverce engineering? I saw that some ppl were doing their mobile phones. It means somewhere exists such information.


--- On Sun, 8/3/08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:

> From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org>
> Subject: Re: firmware Re: IMEI
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 2:33 PM
> Am Sonntag 03 August 2008 13:20:34 schrieb Learning It:
> > It means that this project is not totaly open to
> community....hmmm
> 
> Do you have source for the firmware of your bluetooth
> chipset, your GPS 
> chipset, your WLAN chipset, your printer, your modem?
> 
> GSM is a closed market, there is only a handfull of
> certified stacks available 
> and these are considered mission critical trade secret --
> whether we like 
> that or not. Until the forseeable future, I don't see
> the powers allowing any 
> open GSM stack (apart from the fact that such a thing
> doesn't exist) to be 
> allowed to operate in public networks.
> 
> -- 
> :M:
> 
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