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Because it's Fabrice Bellard. Look at his ouerve, he doesn't bother integrating any of his projects into anything else, or put more charitably, dance to the politics of other peoples' projects. I don't blame him. Contributing to GNU projects as an outsider is a PITA.
> Contributing to GNU projects as an outsider is a PITA. Finally someone who has the guts to write this!!! So true, so true ...
Still a very cool use of SDR and probably considerably cheaper than the alternatives.
Very neat. Shame that 'interested companies can contact me'. Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof things and perform attacks. Lets hope that comes up at some blackhat conference soon...
Yes, it is a big shame that this is not open source. I wonder how much he plans on making from this?
While it's a big technical achievement, in a world when companies are talking about 4G LTE bill of materials of $50 [1] for a picostation(roughly 20mhz) and vodaphone setting targets for $100(my guess for a full device) , where does this fit in ? [1] http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/07/picochip-femtocel...
Considering that this is from Fabrice Bellard, I actually was quite disappointed that this isn't really software-only, i.e. uses the side effect radio waves generated by some standard hardware to do it. Talk about high expectations…
Considering that this is from Fabrice Bellard, I actually was quite disappointed that this isn't really software-only, i.e. uses the side effect radio waves generated by some standard hardware to do it. Talk about high expectations…
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How many people do you know can do all this. There are a few threads being posted these days about side projects/extra income projects/failed ideas. Nearly 99% of all ideas were designing HTML pages. Simple MVC apps.
How many things related to hard core development do you see these days?
Those people who do real hack work, pretty much keep silent and to themselves. Don't harp, tweet or blog every two minutes.