This is totally helpful. One final thing to you all and the list, what user/human facing applications are people interested in making for this and/or see that could be made on top of BEN-WPAN / SLOWFI?
What would be the dream that can sell someone who is not a freedom advocate and is just interested in having connectivity? Is it simply so one can gain network connectivity to a hub, aka, get internet? What range can we expect and how many nanonotes could talk to each other at the same time? Cheers (trust me this is going somewhere, I just know when to ask the experts!) Jon On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[email protected]>wrote: > Jon, > thanks for sharing your thoughts! > > > Is freedom really innovation? As in we have the freedom to make our own > WPAN? > ... > > Or, are we caught just doing the same thing that is happening in > > industry, but without any money? > > When you get wireless connectivity in a piece of copyleft hardware, you can > expect to > > *) be able to incrementally improve or modify many more things than you > typically could, without the need of a large investment or large team. > > *) be able to manufacture the same or an improved solution, because not > only the result was published, but also how it got there. See for example > the extensive test tools Werner created as part of the ben-wpan > development, for antenna performance testing etc. > > *) be able to verify whether the communication protocols embody principles > you find valuable, to avoid interested parties twisting the behavior of > the network in their favor (neutrality, QoS, lawful interception, etc) > > Those are the core things that you will uniquely and typically find in > copyleft hardware wireless solutions. On top of that of course we still > have to implement useful applications. > At the point of the application, to the user it will often not matter > whether that succeeds on a proprietary or on a free network. The user > will rightfully only judge whether stuff works or not. > I'm quite optimistic though that once we unleash it right, we will in > fact see the most spectactular new wireless applications on copyleft > hardware, for the very reasons listed above. > > Was this helpful? > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)
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