IOW, they aren't *required* to use Motorola's products. Joe M.
wd8chl wrote: > Not really, as those are more 'generic'...sorta...and don't have > licensing or royalties attached. Or at least we're talking so cheap as > to be inconsequential. And there's no software generally either. > > On 4/2/2010 12:19 PM, MCH wrote: >> You mean like the Motorola RF devices and chips used >> in many two-way radio products other than Motorola's? >> (including directly competing products) >> >> Joe M. >> >> wd8chl wrote: >>> One good thing, in my book anyway, at least that's all DVSI does is >>> vocoders. They don't make radios. They don't make telephones. They don't >>> make channel banks or muxes. They just make the chips and some software >>> to use them. >>> Now, if Icom (or any other radio mfg) came up with their own vocoder, >>> and IT had become the standard, such that all other mfg had to pay >>> royalties to them, I would have a BIIIG problem with that, because it >>> gives that mfg a decidedly unfair advantage. >>> >>> Jim WD8CHL > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
