Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Steward
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Moeller moelle...@gmx.de wrote: You need a critical mass of developers to start a GNU-like open hardware. Anybody interested? It's a lot of work for a single person, but not so much in a shared effort. I absolutely agree. Production costs may be high for an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-12 Thread Sanjay Singh
Hi All, I have USRP1(4.5 Version) purchased from Matt Ettus around 2 years back. Am interested to sell them at half price. I have two mother boards with four daughter boards. I had purchased it for experimenting MIMO based designs. Since am not at all using them, now am planning to sell them.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb Moeller am 2011-01-11 07:59: On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote: matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim proprietorship on a product which was develop as open sourced hardware project. many of people have contributed to it on Mr. Ettus The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread James Hall
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Patrick Strasser patrick.stras...@tugraz.at wrote: schrieb Moeller am 2011-01-11 07:59: On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote: matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim proprietorship on a product which was develop as open

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 01/11/2011 07:16 AM, James Hall wrote: back? Why is it that the USRP was $450, then discontinued to bring out the USRP2 for $700 now it's being discontinued for a new design that will be marketed at $1700? I predict that the next revision after that will cost even more. Even if it's to

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb James Hall am 2011-01-11 13:16: It's not much for the tax-payer or commercial clients. Why should that be? I'm not the guy you're replying to but you know you kinda cut this thought in half and replied to it out of context. It's not too expensive for the tax-payer or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Markus Heller M.A. (relix GmbH)
Dear list, I also purchased a USRP2 for one very important reason. I am a HAM radio operator (DL8RDS), but I see that this device will open up a completely new field of technology. I didn't want to run predefined experiments such as those you can do with SoftRock or Perseus kind of tools, but I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-11 Thread Moeller
On 11.01.2011 12:35, Patrick Strasser wrote: The copyright is at Ettus. The schematics are freely available, you can produce the PCBs for an USRP yourself. I'm used to respect copyrights. So, it's allowed to freely reproduce, modify and republish the USRP design? That's what I expect from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Marten Christophe
Hello All, I have something to show the project which was community developed and sold in 450$ even though when it was in prototyping phase and FPGA Atera Cylone used to be so costly that time coz it was not matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim proprietorship on a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Josh Blum
Manoj Kumar, Devendra Purohit, Marten Christophe, and others at technosa...@gmail.com, A humble request for you to get some perspective: Running a business costs money: Parts, supplies, equipment, manufacturing, assembly, testing, employees, export compliance, future developments. Maybe the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-10 Thread Moeller
On 11.01.2011 04:24, Marten Christophe wrote: matured that time. USRP has been sold in $450 , how one can claim proprietorship on a product which was develop as open sourced hardware project. many of people have contributed to it on Mr. Ettus The copyright is at Ettus. EDA-files are not

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-08 Thread Marten Christophe
Hello Mr. Ettus, Do you have any plan to reduce price for USRP1 or release PCB layout for poor students? Kind Regards, On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Marten Christophe technosa...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Matt, and All, Is there possible, you can sell only USRP1 board with all components,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-08 Thread Brian Padalino
Hi Marten, On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Marten Christophe technosa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mr. Ettus, Do you have any plan to reduce price for USRP1 or release PCB layout for poor students? So I have a feeling your requests are going to go unanswered, and I don't blame the deaf ears one

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: A Humble Request....for allowing to copy Circuit into PCB

2011-01-03 Thread Marten Christophe
Hello ALL, Does you have an answer to my request , is there something for charity there is possibility for like me to use USRP1. Kind Regards, On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Marten Christophe technosa...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Matt, and All, Is there possible, you can sell only USRP1