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Cool! The wall around another walled garden starts to crumble! How many years before the carriers themselves start using open source code in their infrastructure because it's more reliable and robust?
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You're right. This would be in violation of FCC regulation as it would interfere with a pre-existing network at 2600 MHz.
The guys is french living in France for a french company. I doubt he cares about FCC regulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
re: his appeal to "interested corporations" Does he need money? One would think he probably has a pretty good day job already. But if he really needed it in order to continue writing software, I would bet many people would be willing to contribute to a "Bellard Writing Fund". His contributions to open source are really in a class by themselves.
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Although my information is somewhat dated, he lives and works in Paris for http://www.netgem.com - ffmpeg makes their boxes top-notch. It's worthy of note that his free software makes him plenty of money. It's also no surprise that he doesn't feel the need to write about himself.
Seems that netgem has a history of GPL violations ( http://roundup.libav.org/issue678 ). Not sure what came out of that.
re: his appeal to "interested corporations" Does he need money? One would think he probably has a pretty good day job already. But if he really needed it in order to continue writing software, I would bet many people would be willing to contribute to a "Bellard Writing Fund". His contributions to open source are really in a class by themselves.
Individual persons can't deploy their own LTE base stations, unless they've got a couple million in their pocket for the radio frequency licenses. The only way this will be available to the consumer is if a telco produces it.
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I know (well at least internet sources told me) he worked for a government agency in France similar to NSA in USA. Probably still is, and netgem is his cover.
Why would he need to cover up that he is working for a government agency? Considering that you apparently aren't fooled by that cover up, it can't be that much worth anyway.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the LTE specs are freely available. Large consortium specs of this nature seem to be quite expensive. (cf: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store.htm ) Wonder what the patent licence situation is with the LTE specs?
LTE (as with most 3GPP specs) are heavily patented. All patents are available under FRAND licenses however.
This is cool, but I would assume he's violating any number of patents in order for it to work properly. (perhaps that's why it's closed source?)
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Getting paid is a proxy for doing something society actually wants (rather than paying lip service to) and brings the resources to make it self-sustaining. I'm torn because I find society's wants (at least around my calling) to be largely fickle and shallow, but if I disregard them it's mere self-gratification.
I'm pretty sure that the market would support televised gladiatorial combat, but then you remember ethics. And if you'll allow ethics, why not also allow other considerations than purely what will make you money? Rachmaninov could have just written vaudeville tunes and radio advert jingles for lots more money, but we'd have not have heard of him today if he had. Was he merely self-gratifying, or are there more dimens…