[Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
- From: benignbala@xxxxxxxxx (Balachandran Sivakumar)
- Date: Fri Aug 20 10:56:37 2010
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Yogesh Girikumar
<yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you, that was very helpful. There seems to be a dearth of "Open"
implementations of these standards.
As for the ETSI standards, quite a few of them have "Open"
implementations(I would prefer to use the term "free" instead of
"open"). For eg.
http://www.ttcn-3.org/OpenSourceTools.htm
But when we talk about 3gpp specifications, they are normally huge
communication systems like the GSM or UMTS or LTE that involve a lot
of network elements at the infrastructure side. Even if we have free
implementations, not every one will be able to use them because the
costs of the actual boxes they run, on are extremely high. So only
huge companies(we call them "operators") can afford to buy those
boxes. And since they invest a big capital, they prefer to buy it from
companies that have a established track record with these kind of
standards. Unfortunately, we don't have a free software company in
this domain. :(
On the other hand, when we talk about Customer equipments(called CPE)
for these standards, they are much cheaper hardware which could be
bought by anyone, we have free software implementations of, say the
wimax stack(IEEE standards, IEEE 802.16) for eg. May be in the future,
we may have "free" GSM or LTE user equipments. :)
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Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar
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