[Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Yogesh Girikumar
<yogeshg1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
| Thank you so much for the insight. From what I understand, Blobs are here to
| stay for a while. Why does this happen? Because there are not enough people
| willing to write code for these hardware or is it because each hardware for
| which the drivers are written are way too diverse from each other?
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Either hardware manufacturers do not wish to share their device
details due to competition, or there are just too many irregularities
and deviations from the hardware specification that they don't want
end users to know about them.

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| Is there
| a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem?
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There are standards and specifications. For a start:

ETSI:
http://etsi.org/WebSite/Standards/Standard.aspx

3GPP:
http://www.3gpp.org/Specifications

SK

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