Google: FCC chief may back open platform auction
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/bs_nm/google_fcc_dc
Then came this:
Debate heats up over open access spectrum rules
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| FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, in an interview with USA Today published Tuesday,
| said he wants a "truly open broadband network" for the 700MHz spectrum
| scheduled to be auctioned by early next year.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070710/tc_infoworld/90094
FCC is operated and moved by lobbyists, not brains.
Related:
FCC ignores more than 100 years of wisdom
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| In 1883 French cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs published a set of six
| design principles for military encryption systems. The second of these
| principles is generally known today under the observation that security
| through obscurity is not security. The Federal Communications Commission
| (FCC) seems not to have read the history books or to be aware of how its
| sister federal agencies develop security standards....
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E1800257313005EC092
The FCC, FOSS, and software radios: a mixed bag
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| After studying the new rules -- published in the Federal Register last month
| and taking effect today -- the SFLC concluded that the laws are not
| FOSS-restrictive because they "apply to hardware manufacturers who distribute
| SDR devices, regardless if they use FOSS in them or not." And the Center says
| that since the rules specifically mention the GNU/Linux operating system, the
| FCC is actually acknowledging the importance of open source.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116769
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