Would be a bitch if the fcc went after operators using elevate for non compliance. But remember ubnt had the deal with fcc over locking down their hardware way back because of all the bofh running illegal with the custom loads. This could simply be a cya over the terms of that arrangement
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 10:16 AM Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > The funny thing is, it's entirely possible that Ubiquiti sold some extra > hardware because of Elevate. For example, in our case it took some pressure > off to convert all our towers to ePMP as quickly, because any new CPE that > we put out there would still be usable after we did eventually convert it > (and we had already made the decision to switch all our 5ghz stuff over to > ePMP quite awhile before Elevate was an option). > > The one thing that I can see being a legitimate concern, would be if > Ubiquiti ended up getting in trouble with the FCC over the devices not > being compliant after being converted. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:03 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Elevate is just software. Ubiquiti already sold the hardware and never >> asked any money for software. So how is Ubiquiti damaged? They're not >> damaged any more than Dell is damaged if you delete Windows to install >> Ubuntu. >> >> I'm also sure Cambium wouldn't have proceeded with Elevate if they >> weren't pretty sure they could defend it legally. >> >> I think there's also a principle that your IP isn't really yours unless >> you are making an effort to protect it. So Ubiquiti might feel that they >> have no choice but to try. >> >> I'm just sitting safely in my armchair and hypothesizing, and I have no >> horse in that race. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> On 8/10/2018 10:54 AM, Jason McKemie wrote: >> >> I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. The whole elevate thing was >> asking for it. >> >> On Friday, August 10, 2018, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: >> >>> https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp/posts/1660546944070751 >>> >>> Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. sues Cambium Networks. >>> >>> >>> https://www.law360.com/articles/1071813/wireless-co-ubiquiti-says-rival-sells-hacking-firmware >>> >>> I'd like to see more of the claims. >>> >>> They've also sued Sakid Ahmed and Dmitry Moiseev of Cambium. >>> They've sued WINNCOM TECHNOLOGIES, CORP.. >>> >>> They've sued BLIP Networks, a WISP in southern Illinois. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >>> >>> >>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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