23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
1:44 a.m.
On 23 July 2013 11:34, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Here in the USA, there was for many years a low-level flamewar between Linux activists saying there's no reason completely open-source radio stacks (for open source mobiles, software radio, etc.) would violate the law and a coalition of (1) proprietary-software apologies (notably Atheros people) and (2) a small but vocal group of control-freak amateur radio ('ham') people claiming it's against FCC regulations to permit open source. As you probably suspected, I was in the former group.
Regardless, I don't think this has any relevance, as on most phones, Android does not do the 3G stuff itself, it hands the job to a separate CPU (modem), which, does not run open source software.