On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:11:19AM -0500, Clark Pope wrote: > Without a monetization strategy I don't see how the gnu radio project gets > much past its current state. The problem is the functionality of a prototyper > or student is implemented in about 20% of the effort for a full application. > The documentation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of a real application > needs a lot more work and that work is not educational or enjoyable. So > without something like an app store where developers can get reimbursed for > that other 80% the applications will stay stuck at the cool demo stage.
First, "cool demo stage" is already a pretty good stage. Second, I'd like to point out a very successful OSS project not unlike GNU Radio & the USRP: the Arduino. By itself, it's useless--it's a hardware/software development tool. Sounds familiar? If you read sites like hackaday.com, the Arduino comes up *all the time* with posts like "Look what X did with an Arduino". On this specific site, GNU Radio comes up 3 times, the newest article being from February 2009. Some coverage of cool hacks using GNU Radio certainly wouldn't hurt the project. MB PS: Anyone who gets a GNU Radio related post on hackaday get invited to dinner by me, redeemable at the pre-WSR meeting. -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin Braun Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association
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