On 7/6/07, Lowell White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Feds snub open source for 'smart' radios > By Anne Broache, [EMAIL PROTECTED] CNET News.com > Published on ZDNet News: (http://news.zdnet.com/2001-1_22.html) July 6, > 2007, > 4:00 AM PT > > "Obscurity works best when the hackers can't test their attacks," said > Peter > Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who has written about the > tensions between closed and open approaches to computer security. "For > software like this, used in distributed devices, there should be no extra > burden on open source." > > I spent a couple of hours at breakfast this morning with Peter Swire discussing these issues. It's pretty clearly understood among legal students of the subject that these rulings are based on zero evidence. In fact there's copious evidence to the contrary. What we're seeing is overwhelmingly due to heavy arm-twisting by industry, led primarily by Cisco.
It's also understood that the rest of the world is unlikely to play by our rules, no more than with cryptologic technology, so it amounts to not much more than another American shot into its own foot. One has to wonder about the timing of this announcement and the finalization of GPLv3. 73 Frank AB2KT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070706/83a95753/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
