GPL is quite explicit in intent.
America's FCC has an assigned mandate equally both explicit and critical. As in "Life Safety" critical.
Common Sense fails with potentially deadly results to mediate the conflict between GPL and FCC rules. Here's why and how.
Hardware bound RF gear formerly required "hands on" manipulations to violate designed in interlocks. For that fact-we were a bit safer from "Life Safety" systems being crashed. Either by accident or malice.. We are now in a time when our world's interwoven RF systems have become literally a LIFE SAFETY critical realm. And that's understating it for some cases! Folks- we have simply too many of what Larry Niven labels "Fuggheads" to allow certain risks. Yet prudence dictates sanity AkA "Common Sense" in evaluating the real balances between things like GPL and full ownership of our hardware-as opposed to screw ups killing people.
SO- here's my take on a possible De Facto gambit we modders/coders/other involved parties can do. And it's a simple short sketch.
1.Advocate for risk management guided by Reality..As Common Sense is NOT always Reality.
2 Repeat #1
3. Failing steps #1 and #2 WILL have us deep in several different sorts of the unpleasant #2
Oh yeah- if you think me alarmist? contact me OFF LIST and I will scare you into awareness...
Oren Beck
816.729.3645
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
GPL is quite explicit in intent.
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Oh yeah- if you think me alarmist? contact me OFF LIST and I will scare you into awareness...
Huh?
On Friday 25 April 2008 18:47:22 Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
GPL is quite explicit in intent.
Oh yeah- if you think me alarmist? contact me OFF LIST and I will scare you into awareness...
Huh?
Hell, he'll have you waring tinfoil hats in no time!
I read the words, but I don't know what it said, and now I have a headache.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
GPL is quiasdf34fasdf4sdvfggg.
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[oh my god, eyes bleeding, make it stop]
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Oren Beck
816.729.3645
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
I read the words, but I don't know what it said, and now I have a headache.
I think Oren is worried that someone at Down Under Campground will modify their wifi card so it generates noise in the government-only "SPACE RES. (E-S)(s-s)" band starting at 2.025GHz, which is apparently reserved for beacon-targeting low-orbit death ray satellites, and the results will be bad, what with those systems being currently armed due to the ongoing war in Iraq and all.
They run Linux, you know, for dependability. If you legally obtain a beacon-targetable low-orbit death ray satellite, you can get its source code and improve it.
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