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[News] More Wins for Linux-based WiFi, Embedded Linux

  • Subject: [News] More Wins for Linux-based WiFi, Embedded Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:10:47 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux phone stack gains predictive typing option

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| Trolltech has agreed to resell Zi Corporation's predictive typing and 
| auto-correction software for mobile devices with full hardware or software 
| keyboards. The eZiType stack will be available pre-integrated with Qtopia 
| Phone Edition (QPE), through Trolltech's Greensuite third-party ecosystem, 
| Trolltech said.    
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3627055734.html

Linux WiFi array certified FIPS 140-2

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| A provider of Linux-based WiFi arrays announced certification by the National 
| Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). The cyptographic module in 
| Xirrus's 802.11a/b/g-compliant "WiFi Arrays" has received Federal Information 
| Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation, says the company, opening the 
| door to more U.S. government markets.    
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6580015724.html


Related:

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


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


Is The FCC Blocking Wireless Competition?

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| With the nationwide expansion of fiber-optic wiring and digital delivery at 
| the turn of the century, the federal government reclaimed and is still 
| reclaiming large amounts of spectrum.  
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http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/09/07/is-the-fcc-blocking-wireless-competition


The Spectrum Swindle  

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| This is not a call for a privatization or reformation of the FCC; it is a 
| recommendation for its abolition.[20] Along with alternative arbitration 
| venues, the current court system could handle any disputes arising from this 
| action.[21]   
| 
| The FCC should not be in the business of gerrymandering the electromagnetic 
| spectrum; rather, it should be left to private firms to homestead the 
| infinitesimal frequencies and solve any and all problems in courts: just like 
| property disputes on parcels of land.   
| 
| The FCC sells something it neither created nor homesteaded and has 
| historically been found incompetent at managing. Worse, it has necessarily 
| been partisan in its actions. In addition, the Treasury Department (through 
| the FCC) stands to make billions of dollars for something they never made, 
| never homesteaded, and have shown gross incompetence at managing. And yet, in 
| January, they will both make out like bandits.     
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http://www.mises.org/story/2815


Is FCC destroying the open Internet?

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| The fact of a shared monopoly is, in many places, just that — a fact. When 
| carriers are given an exclusive right to provide service on lines they “own,” 
| the public network-of-networks becomes merely a private network.  
| 
| Such monopolies, whether public or private, provide enormous temptation for 
| mischief. No matter how good the motives of those who create such temptation, 
| it follows as night does day that others with less pure motives will follow 
| them.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1737

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